THE 
SPIKE-CRESTED PEACOCK. 
Generic Character. 
Head covered with revolute feathers. 
Uropyglal feathers elongated and ocellated. 
Specific Character. 
PEACOCK with blue head, upright lanceolate 
crest, and yellow band beneath each eye. 
The beautiful bird represented on the present plate 
is, like the common Peacock, a native of India, 
chiefly inhabiting mountainous regions. It is dis¬ 
tinguished as a species by the peculiar structure of 
its crest, as well as by the bright-yellow patch be¬ 
neath each eye. In its manners it is said to resemble 
the common peacock, wdth which it has probably 
been often confounded. If it be the bird intended 
by the Pavo mutkus of Limneus, (the Spici/ere of 
Buffon,) it is evident cither that the description of 
that species is erroneous, or that the bird is subject 
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