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THE PEA-FOWL. GENUS PAVO. 
Pavo, Linn. 8. N. 1. p. 267 (1766). 
iivpe fo isiacus, Linn: 
Tail long and wedge-shaped, composed of twenty feathers ; 
upper tail-coverts enormously developed in the male, forming 
ine “train.” 
First primary flight-feather much shorter than the tenth; 
fifth somewhat the longest. 
An elevated crest of feathers. 
Tarsus armed in the male with a short stout sptr. 
Only two species are known. 
I. THE COMMON PEA-FOWL. PAVO CRISTATUS. 
Pavo cristatus, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 267 (1766) ; Elliot, Monogr. 
Phasian. i. pl. 3 (1872); Hume and Marshall, Game 
Birds Ind. i. p. 81, pl. (1878); Oates, ed. Hume’s Nest 
and Eggs, Ind. B. iii. p. 405 (1890); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. xxil. p. 368 (1893). 
Adult Male——Crest of erect zaked shafts, with fan-shaped 
bluish-green plumes at the extremity ; the lesser and median 
wing-coverts, shoulder-feathers and inner secondary quills Aade 
buff, barred and mottled zweth black, slightly glossed with green ; 
primary quills and their coverts pale chestnut, thighs whitish 
buff. Naked skin on sides of head livid white. Total length 
to the end of tail, 35 inches; to the end of upper tail-coverts 
mamain, 7S; wing, 175 ; tail, 19°5 ; tarsus, 5°5. 
Adult Female—Terminal plumes of crest-feathers mostly 
chestnut edged with golden-green; feathered parts of head 
mostly dark chestnut, paler on the neck; mantle golden- 
green ; rest of upper-parts brown, indistinctly mottled with 
buff; wing-coverts more coarsely mottled with buff and black ; 
throat and part of neck white; chest brownish-black, edged 
with green and buff; under-parts buff, browner on the belly. 
# otal length, 32 inches ; wing, 16; tail, 13; tarsus, 4°8. 
