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1327. Polyplectrum chinquis. The Grey Peacock- Pheasant. 



Pavo chinquis, Midler, Natursyst. Suppl. p. 121 (1785). 

 Pavo tibetanus, Gm, Syst. Xat. i, pt. 2, p. 731 (1788). 

 Polyplectron chinquis, Temm. Pig. et Gall, ii, p. 363 ; Blyth, Cat. 



p. 241 ; Blyth # Wold. Birds Burin, p. 148 ; Hume $ In'glis, S. F. 



v, p. 40; Sdater, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 116, pi. viii, fig. 2 (egg) ; 



Salvador*, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. 019; Ogiloie Grant, Cat. 



B. M. xxii, p. 354. 

 Polyplectron albocellatum ( Temm.), Cuv. Reg. An. ed. 2 e , i, p. 474 



(1829). 

 Polyplectron cyclospilum, atelospilum, & enicospilum, G. R. Gray, 



List Sp. Birds B. M., Galling, pp. '23, 24 (1867). 

 Polyplectron thibetanum, HumefyDav. S. F. vi, pp. 432, 521 ; Hume 



<$ Marsh. Game B. i, p. 105, pi. ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 315. 

 Polyplectrum tibetanum, Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, 



p. 272 ; xlv, pt. 2, p. 83 ; JIume, Cat. no. 803 quat. ; Bimjham, S. F. 



ix, p. 195 ; Fasson, ibid. p. 203 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 300 j Waddell, 



Gazetteer, Sikhim, p. 229. 

 Polyplectron helense, Oates, Ibis, 1883, p. 136, pi. v. 



Munnowur, Deyodahuk, Assam ; Deo-dwug, Deo-dirrik, Garo hills ; 

 I\at-mor, Chittagong; Doun-kalah, Arrakan and Pegu ; Shwe-dony, 

 Tenasserim. 



Fig. 14. Head of P. chinquis, tf . f. 



Coloration. Male. Coronal feathers lengthened, hair-like. Whole 

 plumage, except the chin and throat which are white, dull greyish 

 brown, with small white or whitish spots that unite to form 

 broken bars on the neck and upper breast ; each feather of the 

 upper back, scapulars, and later secondaries, and nearly all the 

 wing-coverts, tipped by a large rounded ocellus of glossy violet 

 changing to green, with a border of black and a broader outer 

 rim of greyish white ; a pair of similar ocelli, but larger and oval 

 and green changing to purple, near the end of each tail-feather 

 and of each of the longer upper tail- coverts. 



Female. Dull dark brown, mottled and speckled with pale 

 brown ; the ocelli of the male represented by blackish-brown 

 spots or blotches, with a slight violet or green gloss, and by the 

 tips of the feathers being thickly speckled with white, sometimes 

 tinged with rufous on the scapulars and tertiaries ; these patches 

 are most glossy on the secondaries and on some of the tail- 



