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annexed engraving, from a pliotograpli taken by jVIr. Payne 
of Aylesbury. It represents a very remarkable bird, now in 
the possession of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., which 
is stated to have been bred between a white Peacock and a 
hen Guinea-fowl. The head and neck give incontrovertible 
Fig. V 
Hybrid between male Pea-fowl and female Guinea-fowl. 
evidence of the Peacock sire, the white plumage of which is 
shown in the primaries o£ the wings. The rest of the 
plumage is that of the female parent^ the Guinea-fowl. This 
bird was obtained from France by Mr. Castang, and kept by 
him until it had moulted in the usual season^ before it was 
added to Mr. Rothschild's museum. 
