66S AVES. 



Columha siiperciliam, Wagler, Syst. Av. Columhce, p. 25 6^ 1827^ ex Edwards. 



Monornis perpulchra, Hodgs., in Grray^s Zool, Misc^ p. 85^ 1844. 



Chalcophaps indica, Gray, List, Gallincs, &c., B. M., p. 18, 1844; id., Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 477, 1846 1 

 Bonap, Consp., t. ii, p. 91, 1854; Gray, Cat. Columhce, B. M., p. 59, 1856; Jerdon, B. Ind., 

 vol. iii, p. 484, 1864; Pelz., Reis. Nov. Vog., p. 109, 1805; Schl., N. T. D., t. iii, p. 265, 

 1866; Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 244, 1870; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soe., 1871, p. 397; 

 Walden, Trans. Zool. Soe., vol. viii, p. 86, 1872; Schl., Mus. P.-B. Cohmhcs, p. 145, 1873; 

 Ball, Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 80; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, pp. 269, 481; Nests and 

 Eggs, Ind. B., p. 509, 1873; Ball, I. c, p. 425; Salvad., Ucc. Born, p. 299, 1874; Hume, 

 Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 165; id., Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soe., Bengal, vol. xUvj e%. 

 No., p. 147, 1875; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 404; Tweedale, Ibis, 1877, p. 322. 



Peristera hornensis, Miiller, MS. in Mus. Ludg. 



Chalcophaps hornensis, Bonap., C. R., xliii, pp. 947, 949, 1856; Wall., Ibis, 1868; p. 393. 



Chalcophaps javanica, Bonap., C. R., xlii, p. 949, 1856. 



Chalcophaps javanensis. Gray, Handl. B., vol. ii, p. 245, 1870, 



Chalcophaps formosana, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, p. 357. 



Chalcophaps pileata, Gray, Handl., vol. ii, p. 245, 1870. 



a. § Katha, 19th J9,nuary 1868. 



Order GALLING. 



Genus Payo, Idnn. 

 183. Pavo mtjticus, Linn. 



Ze Paon de Japon, Briss. Orn., t. i, p. 289, 1760. 



Ijc Spicifh-e, Buff., Hist. Nat. Ois., t. ii, p. 366, 1771. 



P«?;o ^^^^^■tfM*, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. i, p. 268,1766; Vig., Mem. Raffles, p. 676, 1830; Gray, 



Gen. B., vol. iii, p. 494, 1845; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soe., Bengal, p. 239, 1849; Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soe, 1863, p. 123 ; Gray, List Gall., B. M. Coll., p. 22, 1867 ; id., Handl. B., 



vol. ii, p. 256, 1870; Elliot, Monogr. Phas,, vol. i, pi. v, 1872. 

 Pavo spicifer, Shaw & Nodd., Nat. Misc., pi. 641, 1804; Gray, List B. Brit. Mus., vol. iii, p. 22, 



1844. 

 Pavo aldrovandi, Wils. 111. Zool., pis. xiv, xv, 1831. 

 Pavo spicifems, Vieill., Gall. Ois., t. x, p. 14, pi. 202, 1834. 

 Spiciferus muticus, Bonap., C. R., xliij p. 878, 1856. 



a. t Upper defile of Ir^wady, February 1868, 



This peafowl is common in Upper Burma, wherever there is forest and water, 

 It is very partial to the sides of streams, and in early morning, and evening, its 

 loud call is a familiar sound on the banks of the Irawady for many miles below 

 and above Bhamd. It is found along the wooded banks of the Tapeng as far as 

 the base of the hills, 



These birds spend the greater part of the day in the trees, but, at early morning 

 and in the evening, betake themselves to the river banks and to open spots in the 



