Illustrations of adult male peafowls. - Page 3

Here's some photos of Xishuangbannaensis:

- From a Chinese Postcard




It appears the irises aren't quite as pale as bokorensis and the back is more green than blue compared to nominate.

I will try to look for annamensis annamensis photos but they're few and far.

On Wolfgang's site you can find  few photos of Spicifer :

http://www.pavo-muticus-muticus.de/english/index.html




Here a green peacok from Hlawga Wildlife South Myanmar ( Burma ).

Not sure if those two are the same subspecies. One's probably nominate and the other's Southern yangonensis?


The facial skin is not the same. Wolfgang's spicifers have facial skin like muticus muticus; a lemon yellow but he does have a large male of the Southern subspecies which are supposed to have more intense colouration like that wild bird.

Something tells me that lone, adventurous hen at Bronx Zoo is an Annamensis. I have some footage but it's very blurry. (image stabilization doesn't help at long zoom)

Here's some stills of the plumage details








But then again, I think it could be bokorensis so not what you want, but it'll be of use for the sketches of the peahens.

nominate Annamensis from Vietnam:





This breeder's birds were wild-caught and he also has nominate imperator. Unfortunately according to Martin this breeder has had little success breeding.

Wolfgang's photographed specimen appears to be largely arakansis. The facial skin is most similar to the Arakan as does the plumage of the head and upper neck- lots of it- only the crest reminds me of annamensis.

yeah somehow I thought it wasn't the same as the wild spicifers. That lemon-yellow is similar to muticus muticus. I didn't say it was annamensis but yes the crest is kinda funny compared to the wild southern spicifer.

I was surprised at the colour of the Arakan malar region. It's as yellow as that what we see in annamensis -maybe slightly warmer- but this individual's crest does remind me of annamensis-- but the thickness of the neck- the bulk of the bird are like Arakan and the antiqus. I just love that bird. I think he's got several founders of his spicifer . This particular specimen's irides are dark while the malar region is like that of bokorensis- or malacense. I suppose it's got the best genes from all of Burma and a bit of the Pahang as well.

http://kickingthorn.com/v-web/gallery/Pavo-antiqus?page=1