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ARGUS POLYPLECTRON. 

 {Polyplectron chinquis.) 



Po. corpore supra cinereo, nigricanti-striato et albo-punctato ma~ 

 culato; tectricibus alarum maculis orbiculatis splendide ceeruleis 

 adspersis ; subtus griseo, lineis nigricantibus undulato ; remigi- 

 bus secundariis guttis ex nitente c&ruleis; tectricibus cauda 

 guttis dunbus nitenti-viridibus. 



Polyplectron with the body above cinereous, striated with dusky 

 and spotted with white ; the wing-coverts sprinkled with 

 splendid orbicular cserulean spots ; under parts of the body 

 grey, undulated with dusky lines ; the secondary quills with 

 shining blue spots ; the tail-coverts with two shining green 

 spots. 



Polyplectron chinquis. Tenini. Gall. Ind. 2. p. 675. 



Pavo bicalcaratus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 617. 3. Linn. Syst. Nat. 

 1. 268. 2.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 730. 



Pavo tibetanus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 268. 2. &. Grnel. Syst. 

 Nat. 1. 731. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 617. 4. Briss. Orn. 1. 2Q4. 

 1O. pi. 28. A.f. 2. 



Pavo siiiensis. Briss. Orn. 1. 291. 9 



Le Chinquis. Buff. Ois. 2. 365. 



L'Eperonnier. Buff. Ois. 2. 368. Buff. PI. Enl. 4Q2. male. 

 493. female. 



Le petit Paon de Malacca. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. 173. pi. 99. 



Eperonnier chinquis. Temm. Gall. (Svo.) 2. p. 363. 



Peacock Pheasant. Ediu. Glean, pi. 67. and 68. * 



Iris Peacock. Lath. Gen. Si/n. 4. 6/3. 3. 



Thibet Pcaccck. La/A. Gen. St/n. 4. 675. 4. 



THE most remarkable circumstance relating to 

 this bird is that of the tarsi being armed with 



several spurs, which vary in number from two to 

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