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Gallus gallus. — Ogil vie -Grant, Cat. B. B. M. XXII, p. 344 (part); id. 

 Hand-L. Game B. II, p. 48 (part) ; Gates, Journ. B. N. H. S., X., p. 106 ; 

 id. Game B. of In. (part) I.; p. 366. 



Vernacular Names. — Jungli Murgha, Bun Murgha J , Jungli Murghi, Bun 

 Murghi 5 (Hin. Upper India) ; Bunkokra, Bunkukra, {Bengali) ; Bun kukur 

 (Assamese) ; Natsu-pia, Magse-ya (Bhutia) ; Pazok-tchi, Tangkling {Lepcha, 

 Sikkim, Dooars) ; Bir-sim (Eoles) ; Gera-gogor c? , Kuru $ (Gonds) ; Lall 

 (Chanda Dist.) ; Ganga (Uriya) ; Daono (Cachari) ; Vok [Kuki) ; Inrui {Kacha 

 Nac/a). 



Description — Adult Male, — Crown of the liead, nape and upper 

 mantle, together with the sides of the neck, deep bright orange-red, 

 changing to reddish gold or orange on the longest hackles, which 

 are marked with black down their centres ; upper back, below 

 these long hackles, black glossed with Prussian blue or green ; 

 lower back deep maroon red, highly glossed and gradually changing 

 into fiery orange on the long hackles of the rump ; these latter 

 are more or less centred with black, the centres, however, being- 

 concealed by the overlying feathers ; upper tail-coverts and tail- 

 feathers black brilliantly glossed with green, blue-green or copper 

 green ; the blue generally dominant, on the coverts, and 

 the gloss absent or slight on the outermost tail feathers. 

 Smallest wing coverts, and shoulder of wing black, glossed 

 like the back with blue or blue-green, or pm-ple-blue ; median 

 wing coverts like the lower back ; greater coverts black like the 

 smallest; quills dark brown, in some specimens almost black; 

 the primaries edged on the otiter web with light cinnamon and 

 the secondaries with the whole of their visible portions of this colour 

 except the innermost which are of a glossy blue-green with only 

 a part of the outer webs cinnamon. 



Under plumage, under wing-coverts and under tail-coverts deejj 

 brown or blackish, faintly glossed with green. 



Colours of soft parts. — Irides varying from reddish brown in the 

 young bird, through red to bright orange red in old males. Comli 

 generally a bright scarlet crimson, sometimes duller, more red and 

 sometimes almost a brick-red ; wattles the same in colour, but 

 sometimes a more livid red ; ear lappets white, sometimes touched 

 with pinkish on the lower posterior portions, especially in Assam 

 birds ; skin of face, throat and upper neck red, generally of a 

 rather bluish or fleshy tint ; legs vary between greenish grey and 

 a deep slaty brown, every intermediate tint being met with, the 

 most common colour being a rather dark plumbeous with a faint 

 tinge of brown or purple ; the spur is always more or less brown, 

 almost black at the tip. Bill dark korny brown, the gonys and 

 tip of the lower mandible paler and the former often reddish. 

 The colour of the comb and wattles is much brighter in the 

 breeding season than at other times, both in the male and female, 

 just as it is in barn-door hens when they are in full laying. 



