THE JAVANESE PEA-FOWL. 



Pavo Javanicvs. Hoesf. 



We are indebted to Asia for the most magnificent as 

 well as the most useful of our oallinaceous birds. All 

 the different species of fowls from which our domestic 

 breeds originally sprung, together with the Pheasants 

 and Peacocks that ornament our aviaries and museums, 

 have been procured from the eastern parts of that con- 

 tinent, where they still exist in a state of nature, dis- 

 playing their gorgeous plumage to the rays of a tropical 

 sun. Of these birds the Pea-fowl are beyond all ques- 

 tion the most highly favoured, in the graceful dignity of 

 their form, the varied splendour of their plumage, the 



