THE JAVANESE PEACOCK.

Pavo muticus- LINNÆUS.

PLATE IV.

Pavo Javanensis, U. Aldrovandus, Ornithologia, ii. p. 3334. Pavo muticus, Linnæus. Shaw's Naturalist's Miscellany. Japan Peacock, Latham, General Hist. of Birds, viii. p. 116. Pavo speciferus, Vieillot, Galerie des Oiseaux, pl. 202. Paon specifere, Temminck, Histoire Natur. des Pigeons et Gallinacés, ii. p. 56. - Pavo Javanicus, Horsfield, Transactions of Linn. Society, xiii. p. 185. - The Aldrovandine Peacock, Pavo Aldrovandi, Wilson's Illustrations of Zoology, plates xiv. and xv.

THE history of this very beautiful species is yet little known, though specimens of it, both preserved for the Museum, and also alive, are now much more frequently brought to this country; and there can be little doubt, that attention would soon render it as frequent in our barn-yards as the common species.

The first notice of this bird is in the voluminous work of Ulysses Aldrovandus, who has given two of his peculiar figures of it, and which at once indicate the species by the form of the crest. These were taken from drawings sent by the Emperor of Japan to the Pope, and served for the ground-work