THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. 6l 



First primary flight-feather much shorter than the second, 

 which is shorter than the tenth ; sixth rather the longest. 



Sides of the face 7iaked, or very nearly so. 



The male is generally armed with two, and sometimes three 

 spurs on each leg. Sexes different in pMmage. 



I. THE GREY PEACOCK-PHEASANT. POLYPLECTRON CHINQUIS. 



Pavo chinquis^ Miill. Linn. S. N. Suppl. p. 121 (1776). 



Pavo tibefanus, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 731 (17S8). 



Polyptectro/i chinquis, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii.p. 363 (1813), iii. 

 p. 675 (1815) [part]; id. PL Col. v. pi. 17 [No. 539] 

 (1831) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 50 (1871) ; Sclater, 

 P. Z. S. 1879, pi. viii. fig. 2 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xxii. p. 354 (1893). 



Polyplectron tidetanum, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. i. pi. 6 (1872) ; 

 Hume and Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 105, pi. (1878). 



Polyplectron atehspilion, P. cydospiluni^ P. enicospi/uni, G. R. 

 Gray, List Gall. Brit. Mus. pp. 23, 24 (1867). 



Polyplectron helencB^ Gates, Ibis, 1883, p. 136, pi. v. (imma- 

 ture). 



{Plate XXVII.) 



Adult Male. — Upper parts mostly brown, dotted with dirty 

 white ; near the tip of most of the feathers a large round eye 

 of metallic green and violet, changing to purple and blue, and 

 edged with successive rings of black, brown, and dirty white ; 

 longer upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers, with divided pai7-s 

 of large oval ocelli, ojte on each side of the shaft, entirely green 

 in one light and purple in the other ; th?vat white; rest of 

 under-parts brown with irregular dotted and mottled bars of 

 dirty white; naked skin on side of face pale fleshy-yellow. 

 Total length, 25-5 inches; wing, 8'4 ; tail, 13*2; tarsus, 3. 



Adult Female — Upper-parts brown, mottled with pale brown. 

 Differs from the male chiefly in having the ocelli on the 

 upper-parts '■epresented by black spots, with some violet and 

 purple gloss; the ocelli on the longer upper tail-coverts 



