THE PEA-FOWL. 



The Pea-Fowl may be recognised by their 

 large size and by the peculiar crest which 

 adorns the head of both sexes. 



The crest varies in character in the 

 two species of Pea- Fowl. In the Indian 

 species each feather has a bare shaft 

 and a fan-shaped expansion at the tip, 

 and the crest is sornewhat less than three 

 inches in length. In the Burmese species 

 each feather is narrow, of uniform width 

 throughout, and without any naked shaft 

 except a small portion at the base. The 

 crest is quite five inches in length in the 

 male, and three in the female. 



In the Pea-Fowl a very large portion 

 of the sides of the head is naked. The 

 tail, composed of twenty feathers, is 

 rounded and of moderate size and the 

 outermost feathers reach to about the 

 middle of the central pair. 



The male bird has one spur on each leg. 



He also differs from the female in the 



possession of a " train," which is composed 



of the lengthened feathers of the rump 



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