GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 13 



original type when all breed indiscriihinately 

 together in domestication. 



The Green Peacock. 



Pavo muticus, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, Vol. 

 IV, p. 70. 



Native names : — Daung, Udaung, Burmese ; 

 Marait, Talain ; Tusia, Karen ; Burong 

 merak, Malay. 



In this species the hen, except for the absence 

 of the train, closely resembles the cock ; the crest 

 in both sexes is longer than in the common peafowl,, 

 and composed of feathers webbed all the way down, 

 but gradually broadening from the root upwards, 

 and with rounded tips ; the bare face also is blue 

 above and yellow below ; moreover, the present 

 bird is a little larger. 



The cock's plumage bears a general resemblance 

 to that of the common peacock, but differs strik- 

 ingly in the neck being bronze green, the feathers 

 having a scale-like appearance. Moreover, the 

 wings, except the chestnut pinion-quills, are black 

 wjth a blue and green gloss, and the thighs black, 

 as in the black-winged variety of the common bird. 

 The hen has the same bronze-green neck and dark 

 glossy wings, but her back is dark brown, coarsely 

 pencilled with buff, instead of green as in the cock, 

 and the train is replaced by feathers of a more 

 ordinary length and texture, though reaching to 

 the end of the tail ; these are golden green with 

 irregular coarse pencilling of bufl. 



Young birds are like her, but show some buff 

 edgings to the feathers. Young cocks may be 



