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As the central part alone is confluent, an indentation is left at both the upper and lower ends; and the surrounding coloured zones are likewise indented. A single ocellus is thus formed on each tail-covert, though still plainly betraying its double origin.
Thus the several species of Polyplectron manifestly make a graduated approach to the peacock in the length of their tail-coverts, in the zoning of the ocelli, and in some other characters. Part of a tail-covert of Polyplectron chinquis, with the two ocelli of natural size. Hence I concluded that the early progenitors of the peacock could not have resembled a Polyplectron.
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