ORDER GALLINiE. 13 



The Iris Peacock ^ Lath. {Pavo Bicalcaratus and Uti- 

 hetanus, Gm.) Enl. 492 and 493, Vieill. Gal. 

 pi. 203.* 



Is much smaller, and has on the head merely a 

 short close crest. The tarsi of the male are each 

 armed with two spurs ; the coverts of the tail, less 

 elongated, have double spots, but those of the sca- 

 pulars single ; all of them in the form of a mirror. 



M. Temminck has made a genus of this under 

 the name of Polyplectrum, which M. Vieillot has 

 changed to Diplectron. 



Polypi. Alhocellatum^ Tem. 



Is a species not far removed from the last. The 

 spots are simple blue, in a white circle. 



P. Chalcurum, Tem. 



Has blue quiUs, but the coverts have only transverse 

 black and yeUow bars.t 



The LopHOPHOREs. Lophophorus, Tem. 

 Have the head surmounted with a tuft similar to 



* The Pavo Spidferus, Viell. Gal. the Pavo Javanicus, Hors. does not 

 perhaps differ from it. Head, figured. Tem Gal. t. 1. f. 1. 



f The Phasianus Pavoniniis, and Ph.Fmcm, of Klein, the Polyplectrum 

 Chenquis of Temminck, sometimes found white. Gerin, ij. t. 221. Edvr. 

 t. 67 and 68. Em. t. 83. f. 2, 3. 



