THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA. 3 



The Burmese form will be known as Gallus hanhiva banJciva, 

 Temm. 



Key to Sub-species 



A . — Ear lappets white G. h. ferrugineus. 



B. — Ear lappets red G. h. hankiva. 



The Red Jungle-fowl is generally accepted as the original an- 

 cestor of the domestic fowl, but there is really nothing to prove 

 this beyond the fact that the wild Red Jungle- fowl is extremely 

 close in appearance to the domestic bird of the Game-cock strain. 

 On the other hand Seabi-ights pencilled Hamburg's and many other 

 domestic strains which are known to be of artificial origin are 

 much more like the Grey Jungle-fowl than the Red, Remains of 

 extinct and fossil birds placed in the genus Gallus, have been found 

 in many countries in Europe and also in New Zealand, which date 

 back to the Pleocene and Pleistocene periods and the most that 

 can be said concerning the origin of the domestic fowl is that it is 

 probable that its immediate ancestor may have been something 

 like the Red Jungle-fowl. 



I have followed Blanford in not accepting Gallus r/allus as the 

 name of the Wild Indian Jungle-fowl, but as hanldva is an older 

 name than ferrvgineus the species must be known by this name, 

 the Indian race or sub-species taking the trinomial ferrugineus. 



[Gallus bankiva ferrugineus. 



The Common Jungle-fowl. 



Phasianus ff alius. — Linn, Syst. Nat. I, p. 270 (1766). 



Gallus bankiva. — Jardine, Nat. Lib., Orn. iv., p. 175, pi. (India); Hodgs. 

 in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 85 ; Gray, Cat. ; Hodgs. Coll. B.M. ed. i, p. 125 ; 

 Adams, P.Z.S., 1858, p. 498 ; Blyth, Ibis 1867, p. 156. 



Gallus ferrmjineus. — Blyth, Ann. Mag. N. H. XX, p. 387 (1847) ; id. 

 Cat. Mus. As. Soc, p. 242 ; Adams, P.Z.S., 1859, p. 185; Irby, Ibis 1861, 

 p. 234 ; Jerdon B. Ind. iii., p. 536 (part) ; Blyth, Ibis 1887, p. 154 (part) ; 

 Beavan, Ibis 1868, p. 381 ; Brooks, Ibis 1869, p. 60 ; Bulger, Ibis 1869, 

 p. 170; EUiot, Mon. Phas. ii., p. 184, pi. 32 (part); Hume, N. & E., Ind. 

 B. p. 528 (part) ; Ball, Str. F. II., p. 426; Hume, Str. F. ii., p. 482 (part) ; 

 Blyth and SValden, Cat Mam & B. Burma, p. 149 ; Hume Str. F., ibid III., 

 p. 171 ; Armst. IV., p. 338 ; Hume and Inglis, ibid V., p. 44 ; Gates, ibid 

 v., p. 164 ; Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis 1877, p. 468 ; Marshall B. Nest Ind. 

 p. 59 ; Hume and Marshall, Game B. Ind. I., p. 217 pi. ; Anders, B. W., 

 Yunnan p. 669 ; Hume and Davison, Str. F. VI., pp. 442, 521, Ball., ibid 

 VII., p. 225; Hume, ibid, VIII., p. 68; Scully, ibid, VIII., p. 348; Bingham, 

 ibid IX., p. 195; Fasson, ibid, IX., p. 205 ; Gates, ibid, X., p. 236; Marshall, 

 Ibis 1884, p. 423 ; Taylor Str. F, X., p. 531 ; Hume, Str. F. XI., p. 304 ; 

 Gates, ed, Hume's Nests and Eggs. III., p. 417 (part) ; Blanf., Avi. Brit. 

 Ind. IV., p. 75 (part) ; Sharpe, Hand-L. B. I., p. 39 (part); Stuart Baker, 

 Jour. B. N. H. S. XII., p. 436 (1899) ; Inglis, ibid, p. 676 (1899) ; Fulton, 

 ibid, XVI., p. 61 (1904) ; Ward, ibid, XVII., p. 944 (1907) ; Inglis, ibid, p. 

 971 (1907) ; Magrath, ibid, XVIII p. 298 (1908) ; Gsmaston, ibid, XXII, 

 p. 544 (1913). 



