TUE PEA-FOVfL. 79 



were brought from the Birman territory. This 

 species equals the former in size, and is almost 

 equally, if not quite as beautiful. The first 

 information we have respecting this species, is 

 that given by Aldrovandus, (1599,) who, how- 

 ever, had never seen the bird, but only two 

 drawings sent by the emperor of Japan to the 

 pope. Subsequently nothing farther was heard 

 about it, till Shaw described it in his Zoological 

 IMiscellany, from a figure taken from an Indian 

 drawing sent to England by a friend. M. 

 Temminck in the year 1813, in the second 

 volume of his work on Gallinaceous Birds, gave 

 a sketch of the head, with a description, taken 

 by Le Vaillant from a living individual seen by 

 him at the Cape of Good Hope, whither it had 

 been sent from Macao. More recently the bird 

 has been described by Dr. Horsefield, who 

 found it in Java ; while sir Stamford Raffles 

 observed it in Sumatra. Specimens are in the 

 British Museum. 



Tlie prevailing tints in this species are blue 

 and green, varying in intensity and mutually 

 changing into each other, according as the 

 light falls more or less directly upon them. 

 The crest is twice as long as in the common 

 species, and the feathers of which it is com- 



