42 I'Avo. 369 



(1878) [Criiiiri^s t(i (rodiivtiri]; II nine if Marsh. Gnine B. Ind. i. 

 p. HI, pi. (187S) ; Sciillfi, Str. F. viii. p. 342 (1H79) [Nepal] ; Duif/ , 

 ISti: F. viii. p. -•371 (1879) [Eastern Narra] ; Wilmn, Str. F. viii. 

 p. 492 (1879) [Dh.ion]; liuHer, Str. F. viii. p. 49:3 (1879) [Moz- 

 uirernugg'er Dist.]; id. Cat. B. Sind, p. 53 (1879) [Siiid, Ciitch, 

 Kattiawar, Gujarat, Mt. Aboo] ; Leryr/e, B. Ccyl. iii. p. 731 (1880) ; 

 Vidnl, Str. F.'\k. p. 75 (18S0) [S. Konkin] ; Mclnmy, Str. F. ix. 

 p. 202 (1880) [Mysore]; But/er, Str. F. ix. p. 421 (lAsO) [Deccari 

 andS. Maliratta Couutrv] ; Reid,Str. F. x. p. fil (1881) [Luc-know 

 Civil Div.]; David^i. Str. F. x. p. 316 (1882) [W. Kliandei.sh] ; 

 DaviMti, Str. F. x. p. 409 (1883) [Nilghiris, VVvuaad, Mysore]; 

 Swinh. ^- Barn. Ibis, 1885, p. 131 [Central India] ; Tai/lur, Str. F. 

 X. p. 4(54 (18-^7) TM inzeerabad, Mysore], pp. 530, '.531 (18S7) 

 [Orissa] ; Oatps, cd. Hume's Nests ^-'Eggs, iii. p. 405 (1890). 



Lo Paoii, D'Aident. PL Enl. pis. 433, 434 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. 

 p. 288, pi. X. (1771). 



Crested Peacock, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 668 (1783) ; id. Gen. 

 Hist. viii. p. 108 (1823). 



? Pavo assameusis, McClell. Lid. Rev. 1838, p. 513. 



Adult male. Top of the head covered with short curly metallic 

 green and blue feathers, occipital crest composed of fan-shaped 

 bluish-f^reeu feathers at the end of elevated shafts ; neck greenish 

 blue, shading into rich purplish blue on the upper parts of the 

 mantle and chest; feathers of the mantle with the terminal half 

 copper-coloured, surrounded with golden green and margined with 

 black, and with narrow green shaft-stripes ; feathers of the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, especially the latter, enor- 

 mouslj- developed, with the greater part of the web free ; the 

 majority of these feathers, except the very longest and some of the 

 outer tail-coverts, are ornamented with brilliant subtcrminal ocelli, 

 green with purple pupils in a field of golden copper, and circum- 

 scribed with rings of gold, copper, and other metallic hues ; the 

 general ground-colour of the shorter feathers in the middle of the 

 train is purplish copper, and the rest golden green, the whole 

 varying in colour according to the light, a number of the lateral 

 feathers are l)ladc-shaped and feathered on the outer web of the 

 shaft only ; the longest upper tail-coverts terminate in green fan- 

 shaped plumes devoid of ocelli ; the lesser and median wing-coverts, 

 scapulars, and outer secondaries pale buff, barred and mottled witli 

 black, more or less glossed with green ; the primaries and their 

 coverts and the bastard-wing pale chestnut ; the inner primaries 

 more or less mottled with black ; the rest of the secondaries and 

 their coverts black ; a few of the outer median coverts black, glossed 

 with purplish green ; feathers in front of the eye, the superciliary 

 stripe, chin, throat, fore ])nrt of neck, breast, and tlanks dark glossy 

 green ; belly and largely- developed downy under tail-coverts 

 blackish brown ; thighs whitish buff ; tail blai'kish brown, the 

 outer web with wavy buff mottlings. Naked skin round the eye 

 a!ul on the cheek livi<l whit* ; bill and legs dark horn-grey. Total 

 length to end of tail .'35 inches, to end of upi»er tail -coverts 78, 

 wing 17'."). tail 19-.3, t.irsus 5-5. 



Adult fi'tnalc. Top of the head, lores, superciliary stripe, ear- 



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