DISPLAY BY THE MALE. 
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eii,! S ’ filled with waving plumes. When thus 
’Uav^’ the y be 001116 so absorbed, that a skilful archer 
kei't S * l ° ot 11 early the whole party. These birds, when 
to i i" 1 eorv fi nf ' m ent in the Malay Archipelago, are said 
* * ] ttuch care j n keeping their feathers clean ; olten 
ev J-acbng them out, examining them, and removing 
p a - y s P e ck of dirt. One observer, who kept several 
* * a ^ Ve ! did not doubt that the display of the male 
’^tended to please the female. 83 
sliih 6 S°ld-pheasant (Thaumalea jaicta) during bis court- 
°nly expands and raises his splendid frill, but 
f et(1 1 't, as I have myself seen, obliquely towards the 
it, J 0 011 whichever side she may be standing, obviously 
k er (JI ' that a large surlace maybe displayed before 
(fiff ddartlett has observed a male Polyplectron 
... 
; c imen 
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la the act of courtship, and has shewn me a 
tail 
"'l' 1 g- feathers of this bird are ornamented with 
0c °Ib, like those on the peacock’s train. Now 
ete cts | . P e acock displays himself, he expands and 
b 0llt 1118 ta d transversely to his body, for he stands in 
ti lll{- .. the female, and has to shew ofi', at the same 
°f th ’ d® rich blue throat and breast. But the breast 
stuffed in the attitude then assumed. The 
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°lyplectron is obscurely coloured, and the ocelli 
Pol v °, Cou fined to the tail- leathers. Consequently the 
^ P tetrou docs not stand in front of the female; but 
° ts and expands his tail-feathers a little obliquely, 
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Also 
\ 83 ( A 
■Miaou an d Mag. of Nat. Ilist.’ vol. xiii. 1854, p. 157; also 
iseo’ bld - Vol. ■ ' 
h jjj > P 252 
8 <m 326 - 
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3 ae coy n 'j.y r ;. ^ T p°il has given (‘The Student,’ April, 1870, p. 115) a 
y e "'®ided \ ) ° 'his manner of display, which he calls the lateral or 
ers,c o tof' ’X the gold pheasant and by the Japanese pheasant, Ph. 
vlag. of Nat. lost. vol. xm. 1804, p. 157 ; also 
■ 1857, p. 412, and ‘The Malay Archipelago,' vol. 
io Dr. Bennett, us quoted by Brelnn, ‘ Thierleben,’ 
