See also:PEACOCK (See also:Lat. Pavo, O. Eng. Pawe, Du. pauuw, Ger. Pfau, Fr. Paon)
, the See also:bird so well known from the splendid plumage of the male, and as the proverbial personification of See also:pride
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It is a native of the See also:Indian See also:peninsula and See also:Ceylon, in some parts of which it is very abundant
.
Setting aside its importation to See also:Palestine by See also:Solomon (1 See also:Kings x
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22; 2 Chron. ix
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21), its See also:assignment in classical See also:mythology as the favourite bird of See also:Hera testifies to the See also:early acquaintance the Greeks must have had with it; but, though it is mentioned by See also:Aristophanes and other older writers, their knowledge of it was probably very slight until after the conquests of See also:Alexander
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Throughout all succeeding See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, however, it has never very freely rendered itself tq domestication, and, though in earlier days highly esteemed for the table,' it is no longer considered the delicacy it was once thought; the See also:young of the See also:wild birds are, however, still esteemed in the See also:East
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As in most cases of domestic animals, pied or See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white varieties of the See also:ordinary See also:peacock, Pavo cristatus, are not infrequently to be seen, and they are valued as curiosities
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Greater See also:interest, however, attends what is known as the See also:Japanese or See also:Japan peacock, a See also:form which has received the name of P. nigripennis, as though it were a distinct See also:species
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In this form the See also:cock, besides other less conspicuous See also:differences, has all the upper wing-coverts of a deep lustrous See also:blue instead of being mottled with See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown and white, while the See also:hen is of a more or less grizzled-white
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It " breeds true "; but occasionally a presumably pure stock of birds of the usual coloration throws out one or more having the Japan plumage
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It is to be observed that the male has in the coloration of the parts mentioned no little resemblance to that of the second indubitably See also:good species, the P. muticus (or P. spicifer of some writers) of See also:Burma and See also:Java, though the See also:character of the latter's See also:crest—the feathers of which are barbed along their whole length instead of at the tip only—and its
' Classical authors contain many allusions to its high appreciation at the most sumptuous banquets; and See also:medieval bills of fare on See also:state occasions nearly always include it
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In the days of See also:chivalry one of the most See also:solemn oaths was taken " on the peacock," which seems to have been served up garnished with its See also:gaudy plumage
.
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