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of the head are orange coloured, fquare at the 
ends, and crofled with black lines. : 
The plumage of this bird is fo rich and dene : 
ful, that it has been introduced into England, 
and breeds here very well. | 
ae can at pleafure raife his beautiful and. fille -y 
erelt, and the feathers on the back of his head. 
After the hens are about four years old, their 
plumage improves in beauty, and becomes more — 
like that of the cock 5 when they are young it is 
fo very plain, that they would fcarcely be fup-_ 
pofed to be of the fame fpecies. Thess have 
been inflances when the hen. ‘has acquired fuch 
beautiful feathers, as greatly to refemble the cock 5 
and this we fee is not unfrequent with many of 
the Genera of the Gallina, 
_ Hans Sloane kept a cock Gold Pheafant rae 
fifteen years. With the common Pheafant j it will 
produce a mixed breed. 
‘Phe flefh is efteemed a greater delicacy than 
that of any other Pheafant, and the bird is fo 
hardy, that in time it may become as frequent 
with us as the common Pheafant. 
The fixth Species is called the Pencil’d Pheafant. 
. The plumage above is. white, the creft and 
fomach are black, the tail is wedge-fhaped. - 
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