r!54 rHASlANIDJ3. 



B. Breast and belly black, or black with a 

 few minute buff dots. 



c. Mautle and wing-coverts with round 



metallic ocelli ; middle of chest white 



like the ohin and throat schleiennncheri, p. 359. 



d. Mantle and wing-coverts with the ter- 



minal portion of each feather metal- 

 lic ; chin, throat, and rest of under- 

 parts black, 

 c'. White superciliary stripe very nar- 

 row or absent nehrkorn(P, p. 3G0. 



d'. Wide white superciliary stripes con- 

 tinued over the back of the head 



and confluent on the nape najwieonis, p. 361. 



IT. Mantle and wing-coverts without ocelli or 

 witli only rudimentary traces. (Females.) 

 0. Outer tail-feathers with metallic ocelli on 

 the inner as well as the outer webs. 



e. Mantle and longer upper tail-coverts 



without any trace of metallic ocelli. . chinqtns, p. 3.54. 

 /. Mantle with rudimentary dark greenish- 

 blue ocelli ; most of the longer upper 

 tail-coverts with pairs of well-marked 



ocelli yerinaini, p. 357. 



D. Outer tail-feathers with ocelli on the 



outer web only. 



g. Longer upper tail-coverts with pairs of 



well-marked ocelli; each feather of 



the mautle with a black subterminal 



blotch bicalcciratum, p. 357. 



h. Longer upper tail-coverts without ocelli. 

 e' . Each feather of the mantle with a 



black subterminal blotch scldeiermacheri, p. 359. 



J, n, ,, .,, , 1, -1111 [nehrkornm. p. 360, and 

 f. Mantle without subtermm.al black I i 1 1 *^ / 



•^ , , , < probably napoleoms, 



^^^^^'^^^ ( p. 361. 



1. Polyplectron chinquis. 



Peacock Pheasant from China, Edw. Nat. Hist. B. ii. pi. 67 (1747). 



Le Paon du Tibet, Briss. Oni. i. p. 294 (1760). 



L'Eperonnier, UAubent. PI. Enl. pi. 492 [male] ; BvJ^. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. ii. p. 368 (1771). 

 Le Chinquis, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 365 (1771). 

 Pavo chinquis, AMI. Snppl. to Linn. S. N. p. 121 (1776). 

 Iris Peacock, LatJi. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 673 (1783) ; id. Gen. Hist. viii. 



p. 118 (1823) [part]. 

 Pavo tibetanus, Gm. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 731 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 617 (1790) ; Bonnat. Tnbl. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 179, pi. 83. 



fig. 3 (1791). 

 Pavo bicalcaratus. Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 017 (1790) ; Shaiv, Mus. 



i«w. p. 73, pL (1792). 

 Pavo iris, Bonnat. Tall. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 178, pi. 83. fig. 2 (1791). 

 Polyplectron chinquis, Temm. Piq. et Gall. ii. p. 363 (1813), iii. 



p. 075 (1815) [part]; id. Pi' Col. v. pi. 17 [no. 539] (1831); 



Schinz, Nat. Ahhild. Voy. p. 254 (1833) ; Jard. Nat. Lib., Orn. iv. 



pi. vi. (1834) ; Less. Comp. de Buf. vii. p. 319 (1836) ; Blyth, Cat. 



