48 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



Germain's Peacock-Pheasant. 



Polyplecirum germaini, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, Vol. 

 XXII, p. 357. 



This has no crest at all ; its plumage is light-speckled, but 

 darker in tone than in our grey bird, and the eye-spots on the 

 tail feathers are longer. In the hen the eye-spots are better 

 developed than in that of our species, and are found on the 

 longer tail-coverts. Germain's Peacock-Pheasant is found in 

 Cochin-China ; a smaller race of species (P. katsumatis) with the 

 eye-spots greener and less purple and the mottling finer, inhabits 

 Hainan. The males, at all events, of this and the last Peacock- 

 Pheasant have the bare skin of the face red, so that a red-faced 

 Peacock-Pheasant in British territory is a bird to keep one's 

 eye upon. 



Bornean Peacock-Pheasant. 



Polyplectrum schleiermacheri, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, 

 Vol. XXII, p. 259. 



This Bornean representative of the Malayan Peacock-Pheasant 

 chiefly differs from it by having the under parts mostly black in 

 the male, but white down the centre, the chest being spangled 

 with purplish-green ; the hen, like the hen of the Malayan species, 

 has eye-spots on the end of the tail-feathers, but not on 

 the longer tail-coverts as that species' female has ; and she is 

 washed with black below. 



Napoleon's Peacock-Pheasant. 



Polyplectron napoleonis, Brit. Mus. Cat., Birds, VoU 

 XXII, p. 361. 



This, the smallest and most beautiful of the Peacock-Pheasants, 

 inhabits the island of Palawan in the Philippines. The cock, 

 which is only about as big as the hen of the common Indian Pea- 

 cock-Pheasant, has a long-pointed crest ; the general colour of 

 the plumage is black, glossed with blue and green above ; the 

 lower back and tail are buS, speckled with black, and the tsul 

 is marked with blue-and-green eye-spots. The hen which is 

 smaller, is also crested, and has the crown black ; the plumage 

 generally is brown, mottled with black, and there are green eye- 

 spots on the tail. 



