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and having painted reprefentations of the bird prefented to them 

 at the fame time ; when they put out the neck to look at the 

 figure, the fportfman flips a noofe over the head, and fecures his 

 game *.. In moft ages they have been efteemed as a falutary 

 food. Hortenfius gave the example at Rome, where it was carried 

 to the higheft luxury, and fold dear j- : and a young Pea-fowl is 

 thought a dainty in the prefent times. 



The life of this bird is reckoned by fome at about twenty-five 

 years i by others, one hundred J. 



Le Paon panache, Brif. orn. i. p. 2S8. — Buf. oif. it. p. 327. — Frl/ch. It 



pi. 119. Var. A. 



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HpH IS is no other than a mixed breed between the Common Descriptio 



and White Peacotk ; and in courfe is to be feen in every 

 variety and proportion of colour between thefe two birds. 



• Tavemier's Trawls, iii. p. 57. — The inhabitants of the mountains on 

 both fides of the Ganges catch them with a iirdlime, prepared from the milky 

 juice of two forts of trees ||, boiled with oils into a confiftence, which proves fuf- 

 ficiently tenacious to entangle them, or the largeft birds. — Phil. Tranf. vol. 

 lxxi. p. 376. 



f They muft have been in plenty notwithftanding, or the Emperor Vitellius 

 could not have got fufficient for his large diih, called the Buckler of Minerva, 

 which hiftory fays was filled with the livers of Scari, tongues of Flamingoes, and 

 brains of Phea/ants and Peacocks, 



% W,llughby. 



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