. A general history of birds . nes; wing coverts, back,and rump, grey, with small white dots; besides which, on the wingcoverts and back are large round spots of a fine blue, changing indifferent lights to violet and green gold; quills and upper tail covertsgrey, with blackish lines; on the quills two round blue spots oneach, like those of the coverts; on the outer webs, and on each tailfeather, four of the same, two on each side of the web, one abovethe other; the middle coverts are the longest, the others shorten bydegrees; the legs are grey, furnished with two spurs behind, oneabove the oth
. A general history of birds . nes; wing coverts, back,and rump, grey, with small white dots; besides which, on the wingcoverts and back are large round spots of a fine blue, changing indifferent lights to violet and green gold; quills and upper tail covertsgrey, with blackish lines; on the quills two round blue spots oneach, like those of the coverts; on the outer webs, and on each tailfeather, four of the same, two on each side of the web, one abovethe other; the middle coverts are the longest, the others shorten bydegrees; the legs are grey, furnished with two spurs behind, oneabove the other, the upper one the shortest of the two. Inhabits the Kingdom of Thibet. Described from a drawingtaken from the living bird by M. Poivre. It is probably too, inChina, as I found it well figured among the Chinese drawings ofthe late Mr. Pigou, where it is called Kin-chien-Kee, or GoldFowl. I observed it also in some drawings in possession of Sir , Bart, but in this figure there is only one spur on each leg. i .3#%a^^?^. ■7i PEACOCK. 121 Linnaeus supposes it to be a Variety of the Iris, or last Temuiinck joins the two as one and the same, under the nameof Polyplectron. 7.—MALAY PEACOCK—Pl. cxx. SIZE large. Bill white; greater part of the head, and upperpart of the neck naked, having only straggling bristles, and of anindigo colour; from the bill, along the summit of the head, is a lineof short, black, bristly feathers, reversed on the nape, and forminga short crest; the lower part of the neck, breast, belly, and thighsdark glossy brown ; neck variegated with longitudinal, rust-colouredlines, and the breast waved with lines of the same colour ; back, andwing coverts marked with dark brown, or black, white, and ferru-ginous, beautifully disposed in dots and waves ; in the fore part, theferruginous, behind the white, is most prevalent; wings as long asthe shorter feathers of the tail, and, when folded, appear of a finebrown, with a purple gloss, marked with
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