From: DragonSlayer.................. pango@swbell.net
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc,alt.binaries.pictures.misc
Subject: Misc Fantasy-More or less - a&a002.jpg - White Peacock
Date: 15 Feb 1997 21:41:27 GMT

The Indian peafowl or blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus), a large and brightly coloured bird, is a species of peafowl native to South Asia, but introduced in many other parts of the world. The male, or peacock, is predominantly blue with a fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots. These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and quivered in a display during courtship.