282 Manual of the Game Birds of India. 



The train of this Peacock commences 

 to grow at the autumn moult, and by 

 the end of November attains its greatest 

 development. Magnificent trains may be 

 observed in December. Throughout the 

 greater part of the dry weather the train 

 is preserved intact, but gradually the tips 

 of the feathers get worn down and some 

 of the feathers drop out, and by the 

 commencement of the rains little of the 

 train remains. 



I have never been able to obtain any 

 information regarding the nesting of Pca- 

 Fowl in Burma, and I have never had any 

 of their eggs brought to me. 



The Burmese Pea-Fowl differs from the 

 Indian species in many important par- 

 ticulars, both as regards the plumage and 

 the shape of the crest. 



In the Burmese bird the head alone 

 is blue. The whole neck and the upper 

 part of the mantle and breast are covered 

 with rounded scale-like feathers of a 

 greenish bronze colour, each feather 

 having a purplish centre and a narrow 

 black margin. The first ten quills and 

 their coverts are chestnut, but all the 

 remaining quills are black or dark brown, 

 The wing coverts, except those mentioned 

 above, are green and purple, but not barred 



