92 THE COMMON PEA-FOWL. 



Females. — Length, 36 to 40; wing, 1575 to 16*5 ; tail from 

 vent, 1275 to 14*5 ; tarsus, 5*0 to 5*2 ; bill from gape, 17 to r8. 

 Weight, 6 to 8^ibs. 



The bill is brownish horny ; lower mandible paler and almost 

 white at base ; legs and feet greyish brown ; irides dark brown ; 

 naked skin of face white to greyish hoary. 



The Plate. — The bird is so well known that we considered 

 It unnecessary to give any separate plate of it ; but a smaller 

 figure of it has been introduced below that of the Burmese 

 Pea-Fowl, so as to enable the leading differences between the two 

 species to be seized at a glance, 



