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THE JAVANESE PEACOCK. 
Pavo muticus — Linnaeus. 
Plate IV. 
Pavo Javanensis, U. Aldrovandus, Ornithologies, ii. p. 33- 
34 Pavo muticus, Linnaeus. — Shaw's Naturalist's Mis- 
cellany Japan Peacock, Latham , General Hist, of Birds, 
viii. p. 116. — Pavosspeciferus, Vieillot, Galcrie des Oiseauac, 
pi. 202. — Paon specifere, Temminck, Hisloire Natur. des 
Pigeons et Gallinaces, ii. p. 56 Pavo Javanicus, Hors- 
field. Transactions of Linn. Society, xiii. p. 185 — The Al. 
drovandine Peacock, Pavo Aldrovandi, Wilson's Illustra- 
tions of Zoology, plates xiv. and xv. 
The history of this very beautiful species is yet 
little known, though specimens of it, both preserved 
for the museum, and also alive, are now much more 
frequently brought to this country, and there can 
be little doubt, that attention would soon render it 
as frequent in our barn-yards as the common spe- 
cies. 
The first notice of this bird is in the voluminous 
work of Ulysses Aldrovandus, who has given two 
of his peculiar figures of it, and which at once indi- 
cate the species by the form of the crest. These 
were taken from drawings sent by the Emperor of 
Japan to the Pope, and served for the ground-work 
