Birds, galling. 67. Pavo. 
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6'7. PAVO. Bill convene, fobuft' heetd co^ 
vered with revolute feathers : noflrils 
large : feathers of the rump long, 
broad, expanfile, and covered with 
eyedike fpots. Peacocks 
with a compreffed creft ; fptirs folitarj’. Crejied P- 
• Cheeks, throat, belly and wing-coverts white. 
3' Body entirely white. 
Inhabits AJia and Afrka, and is dortiefticated every where ; 
3 feet 8 inches long ; deeps on the higheft places, and utters 
a loud and harlli cry ; Is proud and vindiftive, and feeds 
chiefly on grain and iniefts ; lays — 6 tggs in Ibme verV pri- 
vate place, which are grey-white ; the young do not attain 
all tlieir elegance till the third year. 
Bin and le.gs brown ; iriis yellow 5 crcjl gold-green, of 24 lea- 
thers, barbed at the tip and with white Ibafis ; line above and 
beneath tlic fjyej white ; Acad, nzek, hreajl, back and rump 
green-gold ; feathers of the rump, ulually called the tail- 
feathers, I'ometimcs 5 feet long ; tail-feathers 18, grey-brown, 
i-j feet long ; fcapulars aird kfler wing-coverts reddilh- 
brown, varied with black, middle ones blue, with a glols of 
green-gold, greater and i'purious wings rufous ; quillfeathers 
rufous, fome of them varied with rufous, blackilh and green ; 
belly and vent grccnilh-black ; thighs ycllowifli, 
Bemale ; crejl fliorter ; fpur o ; feathers of the rump not fo 
long or elegant ; irids lead-cok>ur ; bill and fringe on the 
breajh white; neck green; reft of the body and wings 
brown-alh. 
; head fubertfted ; fpurs 2. 
Inhabits China ; larger than a pheafant. 
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Iris P. 
-.•uaoits i-ttina : larger tnan a pneaiant. 
•Sf/^blackifh, the upper mandible from the noftrils to the tip 
ced ; irids yellow ; crown black ; face naked ; temples white } 
neck ftiining browi, with black lines; upper part of the 
t>acf fnoulders and wing-coverts brown, with yellowifh 
ftripcs, the feathers ncai the tip with a large purple-gold 
^ot ; lower part of the hack and rump fpotted with white ; 
body beneath brown, with tranfverfe black ftreaks ; quill- 
feathers du.^ky ; legs brown. 
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Tibetanut. 
