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Linnaeus supposes it to be a Variety of the Iris, or last Species. 

 M. Temminck joins the two as one and the same, under the name 

 of Polyplectron. 



7 —MALAY PEACOCK— Pl. cxx. 



SIZE large. Bill white ; greater part of the head, and upper 

 part of the neck naked, having only straggling bristles, and of an 

 indigo colour; from the bill, along the summit of the head, is a line 

 of short, black, bristly feathers, reversed on the nape, and forming 

 a short crest ; the lower part of the neck, breast, belly, and thighs 

 dark glossy brown ; neck variegated with longitudinal, rust-coloured 

 lines, and the breast waved with lines of the same colour ; back, and 

 wing coverts marked with dark brown, or black, white, and ferru- 

 ginous, beautifully disposed in dots and waves ; in the fore part, the 

 ferruginous, behind the white, is most prevalent ; wings as long as 

 the shorter feathers of the tail, and, when folded, appear of a fine 

 brown, with a purple gloss, marked with many longitudinal waved 

 black lines ; quills, next the body, at the tip dark ferruginous, with 

 many large white spots, surrounded with large, black, angular lines ; 

 from the root, to within five or six inches of the summit, the outer 

 web is pale ferruginous, with a purple gloss, but near the shaft 

 inclining to yellow ; towards the edge it is marked with several 

 longitudinal black, waved lines, which, near the margin, consist of 

 approximated spots; near the shaft is a row of about sixteen eye-like 

 spots, consisting each of two black incurved lines, including a space, 

 which towards the roots is ferruginous, and towards the apex becomes 

 gradually lighter, until it is white ; between these eyes are several 

 irregular, black, transverse lines ; the inner web, towards the shaft, 

 dusky, towards the edge white; in the dusky part a row of round, 



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