THE PEA-FOWL, 83 
of tail, 51 inches ;,to end of upper tail-coverts, S2°5 ; wing, 
Mets tall, 22°5 > tarsus, 6°6, 
Adult Female-—Differs from the male in having the back, 
shoulder-feathers, and rump brownish-black with but little 
green gloss, and indistinctly mottled with buff; the upper tail- 
coverts extending nearly to the end of the tail, and of a golden- 
green hue irregularly barred with buff. Total length, 44 inches ; 
mimes nO:7., tail, 165 tarsus, 5°4. 
Range.—Indo-Chinese countries, extending north to Chitta- 
gong, east through Siam to Cochin China, and southwards 
through the Malay Peninsula. It is also found in Java, and 
is stated by some of the earlier writers to inhabit Sumatra, but 
its occurrence there is doubtful. 
Habits—In many respects, as regards habits, food, and 
modes of life, the Eastern bird closely resembles the Indian 
one, but there is this essential difference, at any rate every- 
where within our limits, that the Eastern bird is never found 
in thousands, throughout unbroken stretches of country, a 
hundred or more miles in length, as the Indian bird is, but only 
in small colonies in isolated spots, where one may often travel 
fifty or a hundred miles before coming across another colony. 
Like its congeners, it moves about feeding, morning and 
evening, advancing into fields, if there happen to be cultiva- 
tion near at hand at these times, and retreating during the day 
to dense cover. At night, of course, it roosts upon trees, and 
its call-note, like that of the Indian bird, which it closely re- 
sembles, is a harsh ‘‘mew, mew, mew,” which one might fancy 
to be the cry of some gigantic tom-cat in distress. (ume.) 
To quote Colonel Tickell:—“ The habits of Pavo muticus 
are so similar to those of its congener as scarcely to admit of 
separate description ; but I should say it wasa still more strictly 
sylvan or forest-haunting bird. Cultivation does not appear to 
entice it far from its leafy fastnesses, as it does the Bengal species, 
and it is, in consequence, more secluded, wilder, and more 
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