. A history of British birds . nd I have never examined ahen Pheasant assuming the plumage of the male withoutfinding more or less of the appearance here indicated. In some seasons, for instance those of 1881 and 1882, apreponderance of cock-birds compared with hens has beenobserved. Mr. Harvie-Brown states that such has been thecase with birds hatched in his covers from eggs obtainedfrom Elveden, and also in many covers in Peebles, Fife,Dumbarton, and Perthshire. Similar accounts have beenreceived from Norfolk, Surrey, and Sussex. PHEASANT. 103 In the adult male the beak is of a whitish horn
. A history of British birds . nd I have never examined ahen Pheasant assuming the plumage of the male withoutfinding more or less of the appearance here indicated. In some seasons, for instance those of 1881 and 1882, apreponderance of cock-birds compared with hens has beenobserved. Mr. Harvie-Brown states that such has been thecase with birds hatched in his covers from eggs obtainedfrom Elveden, and also in many covers in Peebles, Fife,Dumbarton, and Perthshire. Similar accounts have beenreceived from Norfolk, Surrey, and Sussex. PHEASANT. 103 In the adult male the beak is of a whitish horn colour,rather darker at ; the eyes surrounded with a nakedskin of a bright scarlet colour, speckled with a bluish-black;the irides hazel; the head, and the neck all round, steel-blue,reflecting brown, green, and purple, in different lights ; ear-coverts dark brown ; feathers of the upper part of the backorange-red, tipped with velvet-black; back and scapularsorange-red, the centre of each feather dark brown, with an /.
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