VOYAGE FROM INDIA TO SIAM AND MALACCA. 115 



A more accurate description can be found in my Enchiridion, 

 pag-. 27. 



25. — I was presented with a Juno bird^ by Mr. Clas de 

 Vent, who bought it for one piaster from a Malay. It was a 

 male bird of the size of a peacock. The bill is black, conical and 

 the upper part only projects slightly. The head is oblong, 

 covered with thin black feathers ; on the forehead these feathers 

 grew thicker and were a little longer; they ended in a stripe 

 down the neck. The skin showing through the feathers was 

 blue. The back and lower part of the neck were covered with 

 feathers of a rust-brown colour, having black spots. The wings 

 had twenty-two large feathers, eleven at each joint, the longest 

 growing on the second joint ; on the wider side of the feathers 

 there were some kidney-shaped eyes. These eyes were near the 

 traversing quill on a grey and black spotted ground. The shades 

 of these eyes were : first a narrow whita stripe, then a black one, 

 which changed at the side nearest the quill first into dark-brown, 

 then into a greenish tint, which shaded into yellow and it ended 

 with a blue white shade ; at the other edge the brown began again, 

 followed again by black. These eyes took up the third part of 

 the wider side of the feather. From the outer edge of the feather 

 to the eyes there were some black and brown stripes of different 

 width ; further from the eye these stripes were intersected and 

 the black ones changed into a series of big round spots, one close 

 to the other, finishing at the edge of the feather. The other part 

 of the feather has first at the side of the quill a narrow black 

 line, and then a white one ; after this follow round black spots 

 with fine circles round them ; later on there are only these spots 

 on a white ground. The spots nearest the edge are oval and 

 small. The rays of the feathers increase in size towards the end ; 

 they are ob(use and have white star-like dots on a black ground. 

 The quill itself is first of all black, and has then at both sides 

 white lines enclosing the black ; shortly after the outer half is 

 white the other remains black ; the black disappears entirely 

 towards the middle but the end is black again. 



Ttie whole length of the feather is more than two feet ; the 

 end is half a foot wide and at the beginning it is about two inches 

 wide. 



The front feathers have a beautiful blue quill, turning into 

 b. Argus pheasant. 



