PHOTOGRAVURE 80 



INDIAN AND WHITE PEACOCKS WITH TRAINS SPREAD 



There is no casual arrangement of the ocelli in the train, but, when all the feathers are present and 

 full grown, they show a very regular, mechanical design, a sequence of radiating lines. The so-called 

 "proud" pose of the head and neck is due rather to the necessity for a complete change of balance, in 

 order to support upright on their ends the one hundred to one hundred and fifty great feathers in the train. 



There is no doubt that the birds appreciate an audience, and, in a park, will often approach closely 

 a crowd of people, and deliberately display before them for a half-hour at a time. 



