. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . *,;v. -I f ■- %. J ( 35 )■ ^he JVhite China Pheafant, Numb. XXXVII. IT was about the bignefs of our Englijh Pheafants; itsBill is of a dufky yellow j from the Bafe of the upperChap all along the top of the Head was a Creft of blackFeathers hanging down behind j the Eye is encompalTed withwhite, and round that a fcarlet Colour powdered with fmallSpecks of dark red, which reach from the Bill to the hindpart of the Head, and are much broader than the red in ourCock Pheafantsy the Ne
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . *,;v. -I f ■- %. J ( 35 )■ ^he JVhite China Pheafant, Numb. XXXVII. IT was about the bignefs of our Englijh Pheafants; itsBill is of a dufky yellow j from the Bafe of the upperChap all along the top of the Head was a Creft of blackFeathers hanging down behind j the Eye is encompalTed withwhite, and round that a fcarlet Colour powdered with fmallSpecks of dark red, which reach from the Bill to the hindpart of the Head, and are much broader than the red in ourCock Pheafantsy the Neck, Back, Wings and Tail arewhite, with fome faint Shades and Marks. From the Bafeof the under Chap is a black Mark on the Throat, whichincreafes in Breadth on the Breaft and Belly waved on eachfide, and decreafes under the Vent ending in a Point on theunder fide of the Tail j the Thighs are alfo black, the Legsand Feet are of a fcarlet Colour, the Claws black; this BirdI faw at a Lady\ at Enfield^ where I made a drawing fromit. I do not find this Bird defcribed in any Author.
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