PLATE XC 



GREEN PEAFOWL 

 Pavo mtdiais Linnaeus 



At early dawn, before the heavy dew has dried from the foliage of the Malay jungles, the peafowl 

 awaken on their roosts on tall, bare trees, and standing in the first rays of the sun, shake a myriad 

 drops from their plumage. They walk up and down the lofty branches, and half-spread their wings until 

 the great plumes are dry. Then, with a single spring, they leap outward into space and scale down, down 

 to the narrow opening among the trees which becomes a river. 



