120 PEACOCK. 



Anstruther I observe a bird of this kind which had only two or three 

 feathers of the tail marked with resplendent purple spots, and but 

 few on the wings ; it was said to be a female, but is probably a young 

 bird, called by the people of Asam, Deo-Kukura. It is frequent 

 throughout the Malay Peninsula, and is known also in Sumatra, and 

 there called Kuaow Chirmin. 



6— THIBET PEACOCK. 



Pavo Tibetanus, Ind'.Orn.u. 617. Lin. i. 26. 2. /S. Gm. Lin. i. 731. Bris.i. 294. 



t. 28. A. f. 2. Id. 8vo. i. 83. Gerin. ii. t. 221.— a White Variety. 

 Le Chinquis, Bvf. ii. 365. Tern. Pig. fy Gall. 8vo. ii. p. 363. 

 Eperonnier, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. xci. 

 Thibet Peacock, Gen. St/n.\v. 675. Nat. Misc. pi. 441. 



SIZE of the Pintado ; length two feet one inch and a half. Bill 

 one inch and half long, and cinereous; irides yellow ; head, neck, 

 and under parts ash-colour, with blackish lines; wing coverts, back, 

 and rump, grey, with small white dots; besides which, on the wing 

 coverts and back are large round spots of a fine blue, changing in 

 different lights to violet and green gold; quills and upper tail coverts 

 grey, with blackish lines ; on the quills two round blue spots on 

 each, like those of the coverts; on the outer webs, and on each tail 

 feather, four of the same, two on each side of the web, one above 

 the other ; the middle coverts are the longest, the others shorten by 

 degrees; the legs are grey, furnished with two spurs behind, one 

 above the other, the upper one the shortest of the two. 



Inhabits the Kingdom of Thibet. Described from a drawing 

 taken from the living bird by M. Poivre. It is probably too, in 

 China, as I found it well figured among the Chinese drawings of 

 the late Mr. Pigou, where it is called Kin-chien-Kee, or Gold 

 Fowl. I observed it also in some drawings in possession of Sir J. 

 Banks, Bart, but in this figure there is only one spur on each leg. 



