THE a A ME BIRDS OF INDIA. 23 



PaVO MUTIOLIS. 



Tlie Burmese ]*eafoirl. 



Favo rimticus. — Liuii. Syst. Nat., i., p. 2G8 (1 7GG) ; Latli, Ind. 

 Orn, ii., p. 617 (1790); McClelland, Calcutta Jonvii., ii., p. 144 

 (1842); Blyth, Cat. Mus. Asiat. Soc, p. 239 (1849); Jerdon, 

 Birds of India, iii., p. 508(1863); Elliot, Monog. Phasianidte, 

 i., pi. V. (1872); Hume, Stray Feath., ii., p. 481 (1874); Hume 

 and Gates, ibid, iii., p. 165 (1875) ; Blytli and Walden, Cat. 

 Mamni. and Birds Btirmah, p. 147 (1875) ; Hume and Davision, 

 Stray Featli., vi., pp., 425, 520 (1878); ihid, VII., p. 455 

 (187^8); Anderson, Bird, W. Yunnan, p. 668 (1878) ; Htune and 

 Marshall, Game Bird, Ind., I., p. 93, pi. (1878); Hume, Stray 

 Feath., viii., p. 68 (1879); Bingham, ibid., ix., p. 195 (1880); 

 Fassou, ibid., ix., p. 202 (1880) ; Gates, t&ic?, x., p. 235 (1882); 

 Hume, ibid, xi., p. 300 (1888); Gates, Birds Burmah, ii., p. 312 

 (1883); Ggilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds B. M., xxii., p. 371 (1893); 

 id., Hand-List Game Birds, ii., p. 82 (1897) ; Gates' Manual, 

 Game B., p. 280 (1898) ; Blanford, Faiin. Brit. Ind., iv., p. 70 

 (1898); Sharpe, Hand-List, i., p. 40 (1899); Gates, Cat. Eggs 

 Brit. Mus., i., p. 62 (1901); Hopwood, J. B. Nat. Hist. Soc, 

 xviii., p. 433 (1908); Harington, ibid., xix., p. 309 (1909); 

 Hopwood, ibid.., xxi., p. 1214 (1912); Gyldenstolpe, Birds, 

 Swedish Ex. to Siam, p. 65 (1913) ; Gairdner, Journal N. H. 

 Siam, i., p. 40; 'Ba.rton, ibid, ii., p. 108 (1914); Finn, Avicult. 

 Mag. (3) i., p. 129 (1909); Harington, B. of B., p. 119 (1909). 



Favo japone')isis,—Bonnat, Table Encycl. Meth.,i.,p. 179(1791). 



Favo javanicus. — Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc, xiii., p. 185 

 (1821). 



Favo aldrovandi.—Wihon, lllust. Zool., pis. XIV-XV. (1831). 



Favo S'picifer. — Shaw and Nodder, Natur. MiscelL, xvi., pi. 641 

 (1806); Schinz, Nat. Vog., p. 150, pi. 73 (1853). 



Vernaculojr Names, — Doun, Udun or Udaung (^Burmese) ; Marait 

 (Talain) ; Tusia (Karen') ; Bourong marah (Malay) ; Pegu-majura 

 (Bengali, Calcutta). 



Description — AdAilt Male. — Head from forehead to nape, lores, 

 chin and throat brillianb metallic blue-green, with a purple sheen 

 in some lights ; neck and extreme upper breast and mantle golden 

 bronze, the centre of each feafcher deep purple-blue, bordered with 

 verdigris green and obsoletely fringed with the same. Gn the 

 neck the blue centres are hidden, but on the upper mantle they 

 shew prominently, and on this part the feathers are boldly fringed 

 with black. Back brilliant emerald green, each feather edged with 

 black, and centred with bronze. 



Below, the breast is bronze, each feather edged with deep blue- 

 green and centred with the same ; remainder of lower parts and 



