PLATE LXXXIX 



BLACK-WINGED PEAFOWL 



This is a very remarkable sport or mutation occurring sporadically among domestic Indian birds, 

 sometimes one or two in a whole brood. The cock is darker and the hen and chicks much whiter than 

 wild birds, the pale colour in the two latter cases making it impossible for this form to hold its own 

 against the many enemies of a life in the wild. Although the Black-winged Peacock cannot stand cold 

 as well as the normally coloured birds, yet, in warm climates, it has been known to possess the advantage 

 in courtship, and thus gradually to replace all the ordinary birds in a flock. 



