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THE JAVANESE PEACOCK. 

 Pavo muticus LINNAEUS. 

 PLATE IV. 



Pavo Javanensis, U. Aldrovandus, Ornithologia, ii. p. 

 34 Pavo muticus, Linnaeus. Shawls Naturalist's Mis- 

 cellany Japan Peacock, Latham^ General Hist, of Birds, 



viii. p. 116. Pavos speciferus, Vieittot^ Galer'^des Oiseaux, 

 pi. 202 Paon specifere, Temminck, Histoire Natur. det 

 Pigeons et Gallinaces, ii. p. 56 Pavo Javanicus, Hors- 

 field) Transactions of Linn. Society, xiii. p. 185 The Al- 

 drovandine Peacock, Pavo Aldrovandi, Wilsorfs Illustra~ 

 tions of Zoology, plates xiv. and xv. 



THE history of this very beautiful species is yet 

 little known, though specimens of it, both preserved 

 for the museum, and also alive, are now much more 

 frequently brought to this country, and there can 

 be little doubt, that attention would soon render it 

 as frequent in our barn-yards as the common spe- 

 cies. 



The first notice of this bird is in the voluminous 

 work of Ulysses Aldrovandus, who has given two 

 of his peculiar figures of it, and which at once indi- 

 cate the species by the form of the crest. These 

 were taken from drawings sent by the Emperor of 

 Japan to the Pope, and served for the ground-work 



