CRESTED PEACOCK. 



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Variegated Peacock. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 67 1. 1. 

 Var. corpore toto albo. 

 With the body entirely white. 



Pavo cristatus albus. Briss, Orn. 1, 2S8.~GmeL Syst, Nat 1. 



^30.— Lath. hid. Orn. 2. 617. — Temm. Gall. Ind.p. 652. 

 Le Paon blanc. Buff. Ois, 2. 323,— Temm. Gall. (8vo.) 2. 



p, 46. 



White Peacock. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 672. 1. 



This most splendid and magnificent bird is a 

 native of India, and in its wild state has the fol- 

 lowing character : its length from the tip of the 

 beak to the end of its tail is about four feet : its 

 head is adorned with a crest, consisting of twenty- 

 four feathers, which are only webbed at their tips, 

 where they are of a fine rich golden -green colour ; 

 their shafts are whitish : above and beneath the 

 eye is a streak of white : irides yellowish : the 

 head, throat, neck, and breast, are green-gold, 

 glossed with copper-coloured reflections : the back 

 and rump the same, but more cupreous ; the wing- 

 coverts deep blue, glossed with green and gold : 

 the belly and vent are dusky, tinged with greenish : 

 the tail is of a grey-brown, edged with reddish- 

 grey, and hidden beneath a train of the most ele- 

 gant and enchanting colours, which arises upon 

 the back ; the two middle feathers of which it is 

 composed are frequently upwards of four feet and 

 a half in length, the others gradually diminishing 

 on each side, and forming, when expanded, a su- 

 perb fan of the most resplendent hues : the shafts 

 are white, and are furnished from their origin, 

 nearly to the end, with divided iridescent barbs ; 



