The Hiftory of ANIMALS. 483 
The head and neck are of a very bright and beautiful grey colour ; the back is of 
the fame colour for the ground, but it is very beautifully variegated with tranfverfe 
ftreaks of brown, and of black: the wings are fmall, in proportion to the bulk of 
the body, and their principal ufe to the creature is to affift it in running : the legs are 
robuft, but not remarkably long; the toes are three, and all placed forward ; the claws 
are ffiort, but they are thick and black. 
We have this bird in many parts of England, where it feeds on vegetables, and on 
corn, when it can get at it. I have feen great numbers of them on the downs in 
Suflex ; they run away at the approach of men, but rarely, and indeed difficultly, take 
wing. They are often taken by greyhounds in a fair courfe, in the manner of a 
hare. Their fleffi is very well-tafted. All the writers on birds have named this un¬ 
der the names of Otis, Otus, and Avis tarda. 
p a V o. 
T H E feet of the Pavo have each four toes: the head is ornamented with a 
creft of feathers. 
Pavo cauda longa . 
The Pavo , with a long taiL 
The male of this fpecies is the mod; fpecious and handfome of all the bird-kind : 
the body is large; the neck and legs are moderately, but not remarkably, long; the 
tail is more confiderable, both in length and ftrudure, than that of any other bird. 
The head is fmall, and of a greeniffi colour, but variegated on each fide with two 
white fpots and a black one, and ornamented on the top with a creft of feathers ered, 
and of a moft elegant as well as fingular ftrudure : the whole neck is of a beautiful deep 
changeable green, and is (lender, in proportion to the fize of the body: the back is 
of a pale bright grey, variegated with tranfverfe fpots of black : the wings are of a 
dark grey, approaching to black: the length and beauty of the tail, and the various 
forms in which the creature carries it, are fufficiently known and admired. 
The legs are of a greyiffi colour, robuft, and moderately long • the toes three be¬ 
fore, and one behind : the fleffi is coarfe and ill-tafted, but it is eaten in fome places, 
and is fingular in keeping a long while without putrefadion, when it has been boiled. 
It is a native of the Eaft, but is common in all parts of Europe kept tame 5 and all 
the writers on birds have defcribed it. ' 
Pavo dorfo grifeo , pe&ore nigrefcente. 
The Pavo, with a grey back , and black breaft . 
This is of the fize of the common peacock, and refembles it in form, but it wants 
the fingular ornament of it’s taiL: the head is fmall, and of a pale grey colour, with¬ 
out any variegation, excepting a fmall fpot under the eye on each fide: the neck is 
(lender, and moderately long ; the back is of a pale grey, variegated with undulated, 
diftant, ’and narrow lines of brown, in a tranfverfe diredion: the breaft is black, the 
belly a reddiffi-brown. 
The tail is ffiort and inconfiderable; the wings are confiderably long, and their 
principal feathers are black : the legs are robuft and black; the toes are four, and they 
are long, thick, and armed with ffiarp claws. 
This is a native of the Eaft, but is kept as a curiofi’ty in fome places. Few of the 
writers on birds have been acquainted with it. 
Pavo 
