Females.—Length, 36 to 40; wing, 1575 to 16-5; tail from
vent, 1275 to 14-5 ; tarsus, 5-0 to 5-2 ; bill from gape, 17 to r 8.
Weight, 6 to 8^1I)S. 1 '
1 he bill is brownish horny ; lower mandible paler and almost
white at base ; legs and feet greyish brown ; irides dark brown ;
naked skin of face white to greyish hoary.
T H E PLATE.—The bird is so well known that we considered
it unnecessary to give any separate plate of it ; but a smaller
figure of it has been introduced below that of the Burmese
Pea-Fowl, so as to enable the leading differences between the two
species to be seized at a glance.
