THE GAME BIRDS OF IN-DIA. 21 



Jungle-fowl are probably more numerous in suitable places 

 throiighoutBurmah than they are anywhere in India, for the gentle- 

 man above quoted in other letters writes : — 



" Bell and I in 1904 in eighteen days shot 360 Jungle-fowl 

 " and in 1905 in thirty days got 435 birds. The number of 

 " days mentioned represents the total number of days we were 

 " oiit in camp, and on some of these days we did not shoot at all, 

 " being in jungles away from cultivation, etc. All our shooting 

 " was done as we were on the march from one camp to another, 

 " and no day was taken off work and devoted entirely to shoot- 

 " ing. Under the same conditions as the above, and being 

 " quite by myself, I shot whilst moving from one camp to 

 " another between the 8th of January and end of February 

 " 1910, 316 head of game, of which 127 were Jungle-fowl." 

 They also seem to collect in larger flooks in Burmah than they 

 normally do in India. In the latter place I have sometimes seen a 

 couple of hundred in the same stretch of cultivation, but they were 

 all broken up into flocks of a dozen or less, and anything over this 

 number was quite exceptional. Davison and Hildebrand on one 

 occasion counted 30 males and females seated on one enormous 

 bent bamboo. This was in Pahporn in Tenasserim where Davison 

 found them extremelj^ abundant. Again near Bhamo Major White- 

 head once counted 40 birds together, but these were all cocks 

 without ^a single hen. 



These cock-parties are not unknown in India where young- 

 unpaired cocks often seek each other's society and assemble in 

 small flocks of half a dozen or so, but I have never myself come 

 across so large a party as Major Whitehead's, nor have ] any simi- 

 lar record from any other observer outside Burmah. 



In regard to its food there is nothing special to remark upon, 

 and as an article of diet itself it appears to be much the same as 

 its Indian brothers and sisters. 



The crow is said to be distinguishable from that of the Indian 

 Jungle-fowl, and to be more like that of the domestic bird, i.e., 

 with the last note more prolonged and the crow as a whole le«s 

 short and jerky, 



Gallus sonnerati. 

 The Grey Jungle-foivl. 



Coq et I*oule sauvage des Indes. Sonn. Voy. Ind. Orient, II., p. 

 148, pis. 94-95 (1782). 



Wild cock.— Lath, Gen. Syn., 11., p. 698 (1783). 



Fhasiamcs r/allus. — Scop, (nee Linn.), Del. Flor. et B'aun. Insnbr. pi. 11., 

 P- 93 (1786) ; Lath, Ind. Orn., IL, p. 625 (1790). 



Sonneraf s Wild Cock.— Lath., Gen. Hist., VIII., p, 181 (1823). 



Gallus sonnerati.—Teraxn. Pig. et Gall., 11., p. 246 (1813) ; 111., p. 659 ; 

 Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool., XI., p. 200, pi. XII.; Temm, PI. Col. V., pis. 

 1 and 2 ; Griffith's ed. Cuv., 111., p. 19 ; Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 151 ; 



