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PUASIANID^. 



Pavo cristatus, Raffi. (nee Linn.) Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 319 (1822) 

 [Malay Pen., Java, ? Sumatra] ; ScJdnz, Nat. Abbild. Vog. p. 23[), 

 pi. 92 (1833). 



Javan Peacock, Lath. Gen. Hist. viii. p. 116 (1823). 



Javanese Peacock's head, Gray, III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 53. fig. 2 (1830- 

 32). 



Pavo alclrovandi, Wilson, III. Zool. pis. xiv., xv. (1831). 



Pavo spicifer, Schinz, Nat. Vog. p. 150, pi. 73 (1853). 



Adult male. Differs chieflj' from P. cristatus in having the feathers 

 of the crest more elongate, normally developed, and equally webbed 

 on each side of the shaft ; the whole ot the feathers of the neck, 

 upper mantle, and chest dull gold, narrowly margined with black 

 and with a large central patch of deep blue shading into golden 

 green on the sides ; the wing-coverts and scapulars black, glossed 

 with purplish blue and margined with green ; the feathers of the 

 lower back, rump, and shorter upper tail-coverts more glossed with 

 purple, the longer upper tail-coverts with brilliant gold and green ; 

 the thighs black glossed with green. Naked skin round the eye 

 bluish green, on the cheek orange ; bill horn-grey ; legs and feet 

 dark brownish grey. Total length to end of tail 51 inches, to the 

 end of the upper tail-coverts 82-5, wing 19-1, tail 22-5, tarsus 6-G. 



An immature male resembles the female, but the lower back is 

 mostly bronze-green shading into bronze on the rump, the upper 

 tail-coverts are golden green tipped with bronze, and do not extend 

 to within six or seven inches of the end of the tail. 



In quite young specimens the green of the neck, mantle, and breast 

 is well developed, though slightly mottled here and there with buff; 

 the crest also is about three inches in length ; and the tail is 

 distinctly barred with buff. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the lower mantle, 

 back, rump, scapulars, and outer secondaries mostly blackish brown, 

 barred and indistinctly mottled with buff and only very slightly 

 glossed with green ; the upper tail-coverts extending nearly to the 

 end of the tail and of a golden-green hue irregularly barred with 

 buff. Total length 41 inches, wing 16-7, tail 16, tarsus 5-4. 



Hah. Indo-Chinese countries, ranging north to Chittagong, east 

 through Siam to Cochin China, and south through the Malay Penin- 

 sula ; also Sumatra ? and Java. 



a. Imm. sk. 

 b-d. S 111'- ad. et 



S imm. sk. 

 €, f. c? imm. et 



■ 2 ad. sk. 

 (/,h.(S2 ad. sk. 



t. 5 ad. sk. 

 k-t7i. (5 imm. et 



juv. sk. 

 n, 0. c? imm. sk. 



et (5' head onlv. 



Burmah (Houghton). Tweeddale Coll. 



Salween District, Jan. (TF. Hume Coll. 



Davison). 



Pahpoon, Jan. ( W. Davison). Hume Coll. 



Wimpong, nr. Thatone, Jan. Hume Coll. 



Dec. ( W. Davison). 



Siam. Purchased. 



Cochin China. M. E. Pierre [P.]. 



Malacca [Cantor). 



India Museum [P.]. 



