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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Smithsonian Libraries, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Vögel in ihren sämmtlichen Hauptformen
- Author(s):
- Fitzinger, Leopold Joseph Franz Johann
- Publisher:
- Vienna: k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1864
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is a bird in the family Phasianidae native to South Asia. The male (the peacock) differs from the female (the peahen) in that it displays a much brighter plumage and a distinctive train of long tail feathers, which it spreads out in mating rituals.
The caption reads in the original German: Der gemeine Pfau (Pavo cristatus).
Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, bird, color, Phasianidae, reference book
