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distal point, making them very broadly arrow-shaped instead of round, the solid buff 

 line following this oblique outline. 



On the upper tail-coverts the ocelli are usually rather abortive, showing but a small 

 patch of green, but as we proceed outward on the rectrices they gain in size and definite- 

 ness, until they differ from the corresponding spots on the rectrices of the male only by 

 lacking the outer ashy-grey circle. The spotting on the lateral rectrices is greatly 

 reduced. The bird as a whole gives the impression of being vermiculated rather than 

 spotted. The fleshy colours are more intense than in the female of the other form. 

 The tail-feathers are usually twenty in number, but twice I have found eighteen to be 

 the full complement. 



Immature Female Moulting from Juvenile. — In this individual the head and 

 neck, including the throat, show more white. The ocelli have little trace of green gloss, 

 being, on the whole, dull black with a broad, terminal, mottled, buff border. A number 

 of juvenile greater wing-coverts still remain, bordered with rufous chestnut. The 

 spotting on the rectrices is in the form of quite definite, regular cross-bars. 



All the plumage, and especially that on the ventral surface, has less vermiculation, 

 the lower breast and belly being clear brownish black, 



EARLY HISTORY 



In 1866 M. Germain sent the skin of a male Peacock Pheasant to the Paris 

 Museum from Cochin China, and by the courtesy of M. Verreaux it was given to 

 Dr. Elliot, who named it in honour of its discoverer. 



SYNONYMY 



Hen Peacock Pheasant from China, Edw., Nat. Hist. B. H. 1737, pi. 69. 



L'Eperonnier D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. pi. 493 (Female). 



Polyplectron germaini Elliot, Ibis, 1866, p. 56 ; Vekemans, Der Zoologische Garten, 1870, p. 265 ; Elliot, 

 Mono. Phas. I. 1872, pi. 8 (Bien-hoa, Cochin China); Hume, Stray Feathers, VII. 1878, p. 426; Hume and 

 Marshall, Game-birds India, I. 1878, p. iii; Noenty, Der Zoologische Garten, 1884, p. 56 (Breeding); Delaurier, 

 Bull. Sec. d'Acclim., 1890, p. 237; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXII. 1893, p. 357; Grant, Hand-book Game- 

 birds, II. 1897, P- 64; Sharpe, Hand-list Birds, I. 1899, p. 39; Hartert, Novitates Zoologicae, IX. 1902, p. 539; 

 Mitchell, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 191 1, p. 522 ; Ghigi, Rev. Ital. Orn., I. 1912, p. 270. 



Polyplectron intermedius Hume, Stray Feathers, I. 1873, p. 36; Hume, Stray Feathers, V. 1877, p. 118. 



Eperonniers de Germain Godry, Bull. Soc. d'Acclim. 1888, pp. 52, 983. 



Polyplectrum intermedium Oates, Game-birds, I. 1898, p. 234. [Lushai Country.] 



