370 



phasiaxid.t:. 



coverts, and nape dark chestnut, irregularly bordered with white ; 

 crest shaped like that of the male, but the terminal plume mostly 

 chestnut edged with golden green ; upper neck chestnut, most of the 

 feathers tipped with golden green ; lower part of neck and upper 

 mantle golden green, some of the lower feathers fringed with buff ; 

 rest of the upper parts brown, more or less indistinctly mottled with 

 buff; primaries and secondaries dark brown, the former indistinctly 

 mottled with rufous and the latter with bull" towards the edge of 

 the outer web ; the outer median and secondary wing-coverts more 

 coarsely mottled with buff and black ; chin, throat, and a part of 

 the neck white ; chest brownish black, edged with green and 

 shading into buff ; breast, sides, and flanks buff, more or less 

 mixed with rufous, and shading into brown on the belly and under 

 tail-coverts ; tail dark brown, shghtly mottled with whitish buff. 

 Total length 32 inches, wing 16, tail 13, tarsus 4-8. 



Young males closely resemble the female, but the primaries are 

 mostly pale chestnut, more or less mottled with black, and the 

 secondaries are more coarsely mottled with pale buff. 



Immature males resemble the adult, but the mantle and chest are 

 greenish blue and not nearly so brilliant, and the train is absent 

 or rudimentary. 



Hah. India and Ceylon. 



India. 



India. 



Eaipur, Cent. Provinces. 



Delhi. 



Etawah. 



Sikhim, Feb. (L. MandelU). 



Bhotan Dears, March [L. 



Mandelli). 

 Assam. 

 [Assam.] 

 England. 

 England. 

 No locahty. 



a-c. c? ad. sk. 



d. 5 ad. st. 



e. cj juv. sk. 

 f-k. S ad. sk. 

 I. S ad. sk. 

 m-u. '(S 2 ad. et 



cJ imm. sk. 

 V. d" ad. sk. 



w. S ad. sk. 

 X. $ ad. sk. 

 y. (5 ad. St. 

 z-a' . (S 2 ad. St. 

 v. PuU. St. 

 c'-e' . Skeletons. 

 /'. 2 skeleton. 

 g'-k' . Sterna. 



A well-marked variety has been described under the name of 

 Pavo nigriinnnis ; the following is the synonymy: — 



Black-shouldered Peacock, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 114 (1823). 

 Pavo nigripennis*, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 221; id. List of Phas. 



p. 11 (186.3) ; Gray, List Gallince Brit. Miis. p. 22 (1867) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 2.56 (1870) ; Elliot, Mon. Phas. i. pi. 4 (1872) ; 



Gurney, Zool. 1883, p. 33. 



* Birds belonging to this variety closely resemble the hybrids between 

 P. crisfatus and P. muTicus, but as it has been clearly shown by Darwin that 

 the black-winged variety arises independently in flocks of P. cristatus which 

 hare been pure bred for many years, there can be no doubt that it is merely a 

 sport of Nature. 



India Museum [P.]. 

 Dr. J. F. Royle [P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



India Museum [!*•]• 

 India Museum !^P.]. 

 Dr. Dowler [P.]. 

 J. E. Harris, Esq. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



