8s LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Phasian. i. pl. 4 (1872)], but the figure supposed to represent 
the female of the Black-Shouldered form is merely a pale 
variety. Albinos and pale cream-coloured forms are occasion- 
ally met with in a perfectly wild state, but the so-called Pavo 
nigripennis has at present only been observed among birds in 
captivity. Sportsmen should look carefully at any male Pea- 
Fowl they may chance to shoot from time to time, as it would 
be extremely interesting to knowif this form ever occurs among 
wild Indian birds. 
Nest.—-A hollow scratched by the hen in the ground and 
lined with a few leaves and twigs among thick grass or dense 
bushes. 
Eggs.—Ten to fifteen in number; broad ovals, varying in 
colour from whitish to pale buff; shell smooth and strong, 
pitted all over. Average measurements, 2°74 by 2°05 inches. 
II. THE BURMESE PEA-FOWL. PAVO MUTICUS. 
Pavo muticus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 268 (1766); Elliot, Monogr. 
Phasian. i. pl. 5 (1872); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds 
Ind. i. p. 94, pl. (1878) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
XXil. p: 371 (1893). 
favo spiciferus, Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc. xvi. pl. 641 ; 
Wieill: Gal. Ois.a1.%p; 14, pl. 202. (1325): 
Pavo javanicus, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 185 (1822). 
Pavo aldrovandi, Wilson, Il, Zool. pls. xiv. and xv. (1831). 
Pavo spicifer, Schinz, Nat. Vog. p. 150, pl. 73 (1853). 
Adult Male.—Easily distinguished from the male of P. cvzstatus 
by having the rather long erect crest of normally developed 
feathers webbed to the base of the shaft; the feathers of the | 
back copper-coloured, surrounded by golden-green and mar- 
gined with black ; the wing-coverts and shoulder-feathers d/ack, | 
glossed with purplish-blue and edged with green ; the thighs 
black, glossed with green, and the naked skin round the eyes 
bluish-green, on the cheeks chrome-yellow. Total length to end 
