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Java peacock en · NOUN

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1. (obsolete) green peafowl
   • The place was, however, famous for peacocks, and my boy soon shot several of these magnificent birds, whose flesh we found to be tender, white, and delicate, and similar to that of a turkey. The Java peacock is a different species from that of India, the neck being covered with scale-like green feathers, and the crest of a different form; but the eyed train is equally large and equally beautiful. 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 167:

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