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is not fully grown till April. Six or fifteen eggs (2-74 x 2-05), unspotted, glossy, 

 closely pitted, white to reddish buff in colour. (J. 803. B. 1324.) 



Also F. nigripennis, the Black-shouldered P.F., differing from P. cristatus in having the 

 lesser and median wing-ooverts, shoulder-feathers, and inner secondary quills brownish black. 

 Hitherto only observed among birds in captivity, and supposed to be a reversion to the 

 ancestral type. It is not known if this form ever occurs among wild Indian birds. (O.G. ii. 81. ) 



9. Larsauli, 28.10. 



10. Pavo muticus. The Burmese Pea-fowl. 

 ifj'i<?CMS= curtailed or docked. 

 Doun, Doung (Burmese) ; Marait (Talain) ; Tusia (Karen) ; Bourong marah, Malay. 



S' 40" to 48", train 24" to 44"; 8J to 11 lbs. 2 36" to 44", tail 16". Legs 

 horny brown. Bill greyish. — Male: Long crest of ten or more feathers 

 regularly barbed from base. Blue crown. Facial skin blue, fringed beneath 



