118 PEACOCK. 



crown springs an upright crest of loose feathers, two inches at least 

 in height, and pointed at the top ; the rest of the neck and breast 

 glossy changeable green, the edges of the feathers very brilliant, 

 giving the appearance of undulations ; the wings are reddish brown, 

 mixed with green on the shoulders and back ; under parts of the 

 body dusky ; quills brown, some of them margined with green and 

 bluish, and towards the ends very pale ; tail uncertain ; train not 

 unlike that of the Common Peacock, the feathers glossy green, with 

 white shafts, and an eye at the end of each, of a gilded brown, in 

 the middle of which is a large green spot, within that a blue one, 

 and finally in the centre a cordated spot of black ; the feathers of 

 the train seem shorter than in the Common Species, and perhaps less 

 in number, as the eyes appear not so numerous; legs dusky ash- 

 colour, furnished with a single spur behind. 



Inhabits India ; found at Chittagong and Bhauglepore ; not 

 uncommon in the east parts of Bengal. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



It is most probably the same with the Japan Species,* which has 

 been known to Europe only by means of a painting, sent by the 

 Emperor of Japan to the Pope. In this representation the legs had 

 no spurs, but this might have been overlooked by the draughtsman. 



5.— IRIS PEACOCK. 



Pavo bicalcaratus, Lid. Orn.'u. 617. Lin.'i. 268. Gm.Lin.\. 730. Borowsk, ii. 163. 



t. 26. Spalowsk. iii. t. 32. Mus. Lev. t. 6. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 319. 

 Pavo Sinensis, Bris. i. 291. Id. Svo. i. 82. Gerin. ii. 219. 220. 

 Phasianus pavoneus, Klein, 114. 6. — male. Id. Ph. fuscus.— female. 

 Polyplectron Chinquis, Eperronier Chinquis, Temm. Pig. fy Gall. 8vo. ii. p. 363. Id. 



Sonnin. vi. 227. pi. 46. f. 2. 

 L'Eperronier, Buf. ii. 368. PI. enl. 492. 493. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. xci. Enc. 



Orn. p. 178. pi. 83. 



* The late Mr. Woodford mentioned to me his having seen, among the French King's 

 collection of drawings, one called Spicifere, which was clearly the Impeyan Pheasant. 



