﻿PEACOCK. €73 



with fpots of blue, which have a ftreak of white down the mid* 

 die of each : the back is greenifh blue : the breaft is blue and 

 green gold mixed : the belly, fides, and thighs, afh-colour, 

 marked with black fpots, ftreaked with white on the belly : wing 

 coverts and fecondaries not unlike the back : the greater quills 

 green, tranfverfely barred with black lines, but growing yel- 

 lowifh towards the ends, where they are black : the upper tail 

 coverts are fewer than thofe of the Common Peacock, but much 

 longer than the tail ; they are of a chefnut brown, with white 

 fliafts, and have at the end of each a large fpot gilded in the 

 middle, then blue, and furrounded with green : the legs are afh- 

 eolour, and not furnifhed with fpurs *. 



The female is fmaller ; and differs in having the belly quite Female. 



black, and the upper tail coverts much fhorter : the tail green, 

 edged with blue, and white fhafts; 



This inhabits Japan. Only known to Europe by means of a Place. 



painting, fent by the- Emperor of 'Japan to the Pope. 



Pavo bicalcaratus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 268. 2. 3. 



Le Paon de la Chine, Brif. orn. i. p. 291. 9. IRIS. P. 



L'Eperonnier, Buf. oif. ii. p. 368. — PI. enl. 492. 493. 



Le petit Paon de Malacca, Son. Voy. Ind. ii» p. 173. pi. 99., 



Peacock Pieafant, Ediu. pi. 67. 69.. 



Lev. Muf. 



HT 1 HI S is bigger in the body than the Common Ph'eafant. The Description, 



bill is blackifh j but from the noftrils to the tip of the upper 

 mandible red: irides yellow : feathers on the crown of the head . 



* Poffibly they might have been overlooked by the painter. 



Vox, II. 4 R pretty v 



