﻿74 PEACOCK. 



pretty long, fufficient to form a creft; of a dull brown colour: 

 between the bill and eyes naked, with a few fcattered hairs : fides 

 of the head white : neck bright brown, ftriated acrofs with dufky 

 brown : the upper parts of the back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, 

 are dull brown, dotted with paler brown and yellowiili ; befides 

 which, each feather is marked near the end with a roundifh large' 

 fpot of a gilded purple colour, changing into blue and green in 

 different lights : lower part of the back and rump dotted with 

 white : all the under parts brown, ftriated tranfverfely with 

 black : quills dufky ; the fecondaries marked with the fame fpot 

 as the reft of the wing : the upper tail coverts are longer than 

 the tail, and each marked at the end with a fpot like the wing 

 feathers, each of which is furrounded firft with a circle of black, 

 and ultimately with an orange one : the legs and claws are brown^ 

 and on the back part of each leg are two fpurs, one above the 

 other. 



Female. The female is fmaller by one third. The head, neck, and 



under parts, are brown ; the head fmooth : the upper parts are 

 alfo brown, and the feathers marked with a dull blue fpot, fur- 

 rounded with dirty orange : the feathers which cover the tail are 

 alfo the fame, but marked at the end with an obfcure dull oval 

 fpot of blue : the legs are without fpurs. 



Place. Thefe are indigenous to China, from whence they have been 



brought alive into England, and for fome time in the poffeffion 



of Dr. James Monro. The male is now in the Leverian Mufeum, 



in the fined prefervation. 



Sonnerat obferves, that the bird from whence his defcription 



was taken had two fpurs on one leg, and three on the other. 



This muft furely be a hifus nature; efpecially as he fays it is the 



fame as that in Edzv. pi. 67. 



9 Pavo 



