Argus

the hundred-eyed monster of cla ical set by jealous Heré (Juno) to watch Io even after her transformation into a cow. (Mercury), at the instigation of the Zeus (Jupiter), killed this creature, and the title of Argeiphontes. Heré transferred hundred eyes to the peacock’s tail. His name become a synonym for restle vigilance. Argus Pheasant (Argus gigantens), a beau- Oriental game-bird belonging to that division the pheasant family which contains the peafowl other birds with clongated tails and ocelli (or markings) on the plumage. The bill is except at the extremity, where it is curved; nostrils in the middle of the upper mandible; head, cheeks, and neck nearly naked; legs long, slender, and without spurs; tail of twelve feathers, in the male the two middle ones are enormously developed and the secondary quills are much longer than the primaries. The plumage is of various shades of brown, and the beautifully marked secondaries and the display of the male bird before the hen ure thus described by Darwin (Descent of ARGUS PHEASANT.