ORNAMENTAL FOWL. 



They live about twenty years, and not till its third year has the 

 cock that beautiful variegated plumage that adorns his tail. 



THE JAVANESE PEA FOWL 



May be considered as a recently-introduced bird. About the com- 

 mencement of the present century, Doctor Shaw gave, in his Zoo- 

 logical Miscellany, a figure, taken from an Italian drawing, sent 

 home by a friend; and in the year 1813, M. Temminck, in the 

 second volume of his "Histoire Naturelle des Gallinaces," pub- 

 lished a sketch of the head, with a description, taken by Le Vail, 

 lant, from a living individual, seen by him at the Cape of Good 



