424 CLASS XVI. 



Sp. Af/elasius nideagrides Temm., Mus. L. B. ; from the coast of Guinea ; 

 a collar of white downy feathers below the bald neck ; on the rest of the 

 body blackish feathers, with fine, interrupted, white bars. 



Meleagris L. (in part)\ Bill shorter than head, tliick, ceri- 

 gerous at the base, witli cere elongated into a loose, pendulous, 

 round caruncle. Head and upper part of neck unplumed, carun- 

 culate. Wings with fifth and six quills longest of all. Tarsi much 

 longer than middle toe, strong, armed in males with a somewhat 

 blunt spur. Tail broad, rounded. 



Sp. Meleagris gallopavo L., Buff. PL enl. 97, Lesson Omith. PI. 82, fig. 2, 

 Wilson Aineric. Omith. ed. Jakdine, Vol. iii. PI. 9, pp. 335 — 362 ; the 

 turkey, le dindon, der Truthahn; from North America; it is no longer 

 met with wild in the northern parts of the United States; this large 

 gallinaceous bird was brought to Europe in the beginning of the sixteenth 

 century, and in the tame state has degenerated from its original beauty. 

 This species makes a rude nest of dead leaves on the ground. The male 

 has a bunch of long, hair-like feathers on the breast. The tail can be 

 unfolded like a fan and erected; it has 18 feathers. A somewhat smaller 

 sjjecies from Mexico at the Bay of Honduras, has only 14 tail-feathers; 

 it is very beautifully coloured with blue-green, round spots, with a red 

 copper-coloured margin; Meleagris oceUata Cuv., Mem. du Mus. VI. 1820, 

 PI. I. Temm. PI. color. 112. 



Pavo L. Bill moderate, with upper mandible deflected towards 

 the point. Nostrils lateral, longitudinal. Head plumed, with orbital 

 region naked, crested above. Tarsi longer than middle toe, covered 

 anteriorly with a single row of scutellac ontinued from the row of 

 scutella of the outer toe, spurred, or in females tuberculate. Wings 

 short, with sixth quill or fifth and sixth longest of all. Tail with 

 18 feathers, with coverts in males surpassing the tail-feathers in 

 length, ocellate. 



Sp. Pmo cristatus L., Buff. PI. enl. 433, 434, Lesson Omith. PI. 82, fig. i ; 

 the peacock, le paon, der Pfau; from Thibet and other countries of the 

 continent of India; this beautiful bird was first brought to Greece by 

 Alexander the Great ; it is now dispersed throughout the whole of Europe, 

 to the adorning of our parks. Pavo muticus L., Pavo spiciferus Vieill., 

 Pavo japonensis Aldrov. Omith. Lib. 13, cap. 3, (Tom. 11. p. 17, Tab. i, 

 figs. 4, 5). ViEiLLOT Galerie des Oiseaux, PI. 202, Gray Gener. PI. 125, 

 fig. 2 (head) ; this species has a copper-coloured green neck, and a bunch 

 of long, thin feathers on the top of the head, which carry barbs from the 

 base; it occurs at Java. 



^ Meleagris cristata L. is a species of Penelope, — Meleagris satyra L. a species of 

 Tragojpan Cuv., Ceriornis Swains. 



