THE 
THIBETIAN PEACOCK. 
Generic Character. 
XJropygial feathers elongated, broad, expanfile, 
ocellated. 
Specific Character, &c. 
Pale-brown double-fpurred creftlefs PEACOCK, 
with oval amethyftine fpots. 
Le Paon du Tibet. 
Brifs. orn. l. p. 294. pi. 28. f. 2„ 
Le Chinquis. 
Buff. ois. 2. p. 365. 
Tibet PEACOCK. 
Lath. syn. 2. p. 675. 
For an accurate account of this fpecies we are 
obliged to the celebrated ornithogift, Monf. Britton, 
who defcribes it in the following manner. 
I have never feen this fpecies of Peacock, but 
have taken its defcription from a figure drawn from, 
the life by Monf. Poivre, and have caufed it to be 
engraved. 
It is about thefize of a turkey, and meafures from 
the tip of the bill to the end of the tail two feet one 
N 2 inch 
