668 AVES. 



Columba superciliaris, Wagler, Syst. Av. Columha,^. 256, 1827, ex Edwards, 

 Monornispetjmlchra, Hodgs., in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85, 1844. 



Chakophaps indica, Gray, List, Gallina, &c., B. M., p. 18, 1844; id., Gen. B., vol. ii, p. 477, 1846; 

 Bonap. Consp., t. ii, p. 91, 1854; Gray, Cat. Columba, 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. Soc, 1871, p. 397; 

 Walden, Trans. Zool. See., vol. viii, p. 86, 1872 ; Sehl., Mus. P.-B. Columba,^. 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, Jouin. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, es;. 

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



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



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



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



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



CJiakopJiaps fonnosana, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1865, p. 357. 



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



a. % Katha, 19th January 1868. 



Order GALLINtE. 

 Family— P^J-SI4iV^7D^. 



Genus Pavo, Ldnn. 



183. Pavo mutictjSj Linn. 



Le Paon de Jajjon, Briss. Orn., t. i, p. 289, 1760. 



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



PaTO OTWiS/cM*, 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. Soc, Bengal, p. 239, 1849; Sclater, 



Proc. Zool. Soc, 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 spkifer, 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 spkiferus, Vieill., Gall. Ois., t. x, p. 14, pi. 202, 1834. 

 Spkiferihs mutkiis, Bonap., C. R., xlii, p. 878, 1856. 



a. t Upper defile of Irawady, 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 mUes below 

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

 the base of the hiUs. 



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 



