42G BIRDS OF TENASSERlM. 



to 19-75; tarsus, 7-0 to 8'5; bill from gape, 1/95 to 25 ; 

 weight, 8*5 to ll'Otbs. The traiu formed by the elongated tail- 

 coverts projects in the males from 2 to 4 feet beyond the true 

 tail. 



Legs and feet dark horny brown ; bill dark horny brown ; 

 lower mandible pale near base ; irides dark brown. 



The facial skin is of two colors, smalt blue and chrome 

 yellow. 



The blue runs from a point in front of and below the nostrils, 

 where it is palest, to the gape, and from thence in a curved 

 line past, and 0"lo in front of the orifice of the ear to within 

 035 of the top of the head, from thence curving round over 

 the eye, and about 0*2 above it, down to the point below the 

 nostrils already referred to ; the blue is brightest just behiud 



the eye. 



The chrome yellow extends as a broad irregular band over 

 the posterior portion of the face, immediately behind the blue. 

 It is widest on the cheeks, where it may be 0*8 wide, and 

 narrowest at the aural orifice which it encloses, where it may 

 be 0'45 wide. It begins at the gape and goes up as high as the 

 blue. A broad patch of small scaly metallic green feathers runs 

 across the blue from near the gape up to and just touching the 

 lower margin of the eye. A line of similar feathers ruus imme- 

 diately over the eye, curving up a little posteriorly. A tiny 

 patch of somewhat similar feathers above the aural orifice, and 

 it is about this part that the chrome yellow is brightest ; at the 

 line of junction of the blue and yellow, the colors become 

 slio-htly intermingled, the blue being perceptibly tinged with 

 yellow, and the yellow with blue, producing a dirty greenish 

 shade. 



The Burmese Pea Fowl is distinguished by its long occipital 

 crest of straight stiff narrow feathers, with the greater portion of 

 the webs, except just at the base, metallic blue, shaded with 

 green ; the longest of these crest feathers is sometimes nearly 

 five inches in length. The entire forehead, crown, and anterior 

 part of the occiput is covered with closely set scaly feathers, 

 black at their bases, of which little is seen, and tipped with 

 brilliant metallic blue, shaded with green. The feathers of the 

 neck all round and breast are brown at the bases, which are 

 completely hidden by the overlapping of the feathers, and at the 

 tip, have a broad band of bronze, greenish in some lights, vinous 

 in others. Outside, this band is excessively narrowly margined 

 with black, and inside this black line is an equally narrow golden 

 green one ; inside the bronze band the feathers are deep blue 

 at the shaft, shading off to bright green ; on the front of the 

 neck nothing but the bronze band is seen. On back of the 



