The peafowl is smaller, slenderer, and more graceful than the turkey, and is a little more agile in motion.
The peafowl is supposed to be a native of Java and Ceylon.
The voice of thepeafowl is a harsh, piercing scream.
The adult peacock is so much more striking in appearance than the females and the young males, and old males are so often exhibited alone, that many persons suppose that the peafowl are distinctly unlike other domestic birds.
The peafowl is its own worst enemy in domestication.
When, however, one sees a flock containing several females, or males in which the characteristic plumage is not yet developed, the general resemblance between peafowl and turkeys is immediately noticed.
Because they are so much smaller than peafowl, and also because they are able to live amicably with fowls, they may be kept where peafowl could not.
Hence, the history of the name indicates that the distribution of the peafowl was along much the same lines in Europe as the distribution of the fowl.
Although a young peafowl is very good eating, a male old enough to have acquired its full plumage would be hard, tough, and unpalatable.
Many owners of large farms, who do not keep turkeys, or who keep only a small flock, might maintain a small stock of peafowlwith very little trouble.
The scarcity of peafowl is not due wholly to the expense of procuring them or to the difficulty of rearing them.
In Europe and America the peafowl is now bred only for ornamental purposes.
With dancing feet glad peafowl greet Bright flash and rumbling cloud; Down channels steep red torrents sweep; The frogs give welcome loud; No stars in skies, but lantern-flies Seem stars that float to earth.
The peafowl and sarus cranes are indulging in the pleasures of courtship.
The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) usually lay their large white eggs on the ground in long grass or thick undergrowth.
A few belated peafowl may still be found with eggs, but these are exceptions.
Peafowl are distributed all over India; they occur in most localities suited to their habits, that is to say where there is plenty of cover, good crops, and abundance of water.
In many parts of Northern India, notably in those districts through which the Jumna and Ganges run, peafowl are accounted sacred by the Hindu population.
In some parts of India peafowl may be seen in a state of semi-domestication and are regularly fed by temple keepers.
I once camped in a district where peafowl were exceptionally numerous, and on this account I concluded that they were venerated by the populace.
Peafowl are objects of veneration in all the Native States of Rajputana.
In my opinion, peafowl should be seen and not heard.
Well, in dem days de Peafowl he nuber had none er dem eyes on his tail wat he got now; his tail wuz des er clean blue.
These birds breed true when mated together, and are known to have arisen from common peafowl in no less than nine instances.
The common name for a peafowl is m[=o]r, but the Nepaulese and Banturs call it majoor.
My syce and pony would then walk slowly by the edges of the fields, and when the syce saw a peafowl ahead, making for the jungle, he would shout and try to make it rise.
The young of deer and pig, too, fall victims, and when nothing else can be had, peafowl have been known to furnish them a meal.
Quail, partridge, and plover rose from the ground in coveys, as my horse cantered through; and an occasional peafowlor florican scudded across the track as I ambled onward.
Unless hard hit peafowl will often get away; they run with amazing swiftness, and in the heart of the jungle it is almost impossible to make them rise.
Den dey sen' off for Peafowl, but Peafowl would not go.
At that moment, the peafowl in Mary Van's yard uttered a piercing screech.
XII MISS LILLY DOVE "Mammy, look at Tishy Peafowlin Mary Van's yard.
Mammy, could Major Peafowlfly up to the top of Mister Tall Pine?
An' Peafowl sing an' sing, an' make all sort of figure before Dummy.
Peafowl never go back with no answer to report, for Puss an' Monkey an' Annancy give Peafowl gold not to talk that they kill Tiger.
An' when him done laugh him tell Peafowl to say:--"Who hold me here?
So Peafowl never can be a poor man for he keep the t'ree friend secret.
So them went to the King yard, Peafowl before, Dummy in the middle, Annancy de a back.
So Annancy beg Bro'er Peafowl he must come with him to Dummy.
An' Annancy give Peafowl gold all over his body an' six quarts of corn.
The peafowl are delighted at the approach of the rainy season, when "their sorrow" comes to an end.
So again he slept soundly while the ninthpeafowl fluttered about his head and tried vainly to arouse him.
Eight of the peafowl alighted on the water's edge, changed into lovely maidens and went bathing in the lake, but the ninth flew straight down to the Prince, fluttered her wings in his face and uttering sad cries tried hard to arouse him.
The peafowl in the tree were about to eat the last of them.
The next day as the Prince waited for the appearance of the nine peafowl he galloped madly along the shore of the lake hoping in this way to ward off the strange sleep.
The Prince and his man wandered hither and thither over the world inquiring everywhere for news of nine peafowl one of whom was a lovely maiden.
The ninth peafowl as she flew away said to tell you that to-morrow is the last day they'll come to the lake.
On the stroke of midnight there was a whirr of wings and nine beautiful peafowl came flying down from the sky.
Never again would she be changed into a peafowlat the whim of a wicked dragon, never again be separated from her loved one.
Everywhere he went he made inquiries about the nine enchanted peafowl and everywhere people shook their heads and said they had never heard of them.
The next night the Prince again slept under the apple-tree and awoke just before midnight to hear the whirr of wings and see the nine peafowl come flying down from the sky.
The peafowl were no sooner gone than the Prince rubbed his eyes and looked about.
I have fallen asleep just when the peafowl appeared?
But the moment the nine peafowl appeared in the sky he was so delighted that he drew rein and the treacherous serving man was able to slip up behind him and blow the magic bellows on his neck.
Peafowl are said to be rather disagreeable pets because they often attack infirm persons and children and kill young poultry.
The species which we killed on the Salween River is the green peafowl (Pavo munticus) which inhabits Burma, Sumatra, Java, and the Malay Peninsula.
The Chinese believe that the flesh of the peafowl is poison and our servants were horrified when they learned that we intended to eat it.
The common peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is a native of India, Ceylon, and Assam.
Jungle warnings, such as monkeys swearing and the alarm notes of peafowl and deer, should never be lightly disregarded.
The sure signs of either a tiger or panther being in the beat are when the monkeys begin swearing or peafowl get up with a peculiar ‘kok-kok.
