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Identifier: animalsinmenager00swai (find matches)
Title: Animals in menageries
Year: 1838 (1830s)
Authors: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859 Richmond, Charles Wallace, 1868-1932, former owner. DSI Riley, Joseph Harvey, 1873-1941, former owner. DSI Billaud, Fr., former owner. DSI Long Island Historical Society, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoo animals Menageries Animal behavior
Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and John Taylor
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ze and structure,there is little to distinguish thepresent from the preceding spe-cies ; they are both nearly ofthe same size; but the Javanesepeacock is readily distinguished by having a crestdouble the length of the other, and by the feathersthemselves being barbed or webbed for their entirelength, and of equal breadth throughout. The headand crest alternately reflect blue and green ; the sidesof the head, including the region of the eye and ears,are naked, and are light yellow, passing into blue green :the feathers of the neck and breast are scale-like, of arich blue green colour, edged with a broad metallicborder: the wing covers are Hke the back, but deeper;but the quills are light chestnut : the tail feathers, andtheir elongated covers, are of a splendid metallic brown,glossed with dark green ; the barbs or webs are extremely long, silky, and discomposed, terminating, as inthe common peacock, in beautiful ocellated spots. It isto be hoped that this species may soon become better
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Gardens of the Zool. Society, ii. 270. 170 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. known in our parks and menageries than it is atpresent. Refulgent Lancecrest. Lophophorus refulgens, Temminck. Phasianus Impeyanus, Latham, Ind. Orn. u. 632. ImpeyanPheasant, Lath. Syn. Supp. 208. pi. 114. Lophophorusresplendens, Temminck, Pig. et Gal ii. 355. Although this truly refulgent bird has never yet, sofar as we are informed_, been brought to England alive,there seems to be no valid reason why the attemptwould not, with sufficient care, succeed. It is true thatlady Impey, many years ago, attempted to bring someover with her from India to this country; yet, althoughthe trial was unsuccessful, we apprehend the failurewas more likely to have been caused by incidentalthan by insuperable difficulties. A voyage from India,forty years ago, was a very different thing to what it isnow, both as to time, and comfort, and convenience ;and the few slight notices we possess of the species inquestion, so far from being unfavo

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