1863.] SPECIES OF PHASIANIDiE. 123 



Ceriornis melanocephala. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 499 ; Gould, B. 

 Asia, pt. 7. pi. 9. 



Hab. Slopes of North-western Himalayas : higher ranges north- 

 west of Simla, and Southern Pinjal forests of Cashmere {Br. A. i. 

 Adams). 



3. Ceriornis temminckii. (Temminck's Tragopan.) 



Satyra temminckii, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 50. 

 Hab. China : exact locality unknown. 



Obtained by Mr. Reeves from Beale's Menagerie, and brought 

 ahve to this country. 



4. Ceriornis caboti. (Cabot's Tragopan.) 



Ceriornis caboti, Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 171 ; B. Asia, pt. 

 Hab. China (?). 



Described from a single specimen in Dr. Cabot's collection, said 

 to have been obtained at Macao. 



Subfam. II. PAVONINE. 



Range. — Indian region except China, Java, and Philippines. 



Genus I. Pavo, Linn. 

 Distribution. — Peninsula of India, Burmese countries, and Java. 



1. Pavo CRiSTATUs. (Common Pea-fowl.) 



Pavo cristatus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 267. 



Hab. Indian peninsula, Himalayas (up to 4000 feet), and Ceylon ; 

 jungles among the salt-range of the Punjab (Dr. A. L. Adams). 



At one time I supposed that the Ceylonese species of Peacock 

 might be the next {Pavo nigripennis) ; but Sir J. Emerson Tennant 

 having kindly procured me a skin from Ceylon for comparison, I 

 find it to be the same as the Indian Pavo cristatus. 



2. Pavo nigripennis. (Black-winged Pea-fowl.) 



Pavo nigripennis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 221. 



I am still at a loss to know what was the original sedes of this 

 Peacock, which I cannot regard otherwise than as a very distinct 

 species. Raffles (Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 319) says the "Common 

 Peacock is a native of the Malay peninsula and Java ;" and in the 

 Appendix to his Memoir, Pavo cristatus is given as being found in 

 Sumatra. Can the present bird be the Malayan form of the com- 

 mon species ? 



3. Pavo mtjticus. (Javan Pea-fowl.) 



Pavo javanicus, Horsf. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 185. 



Hab. Burmese and Malay countries, ranging northwards to Ar- 

 racan ; Java {Horsf.) ; Sumatra (Fz^ors in Raffles's Mem. p. 676). 



Obtained in Eastern Java by Mr. Wallace, and said to be abun- 

 dant all over the island. 



