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being considered a hybrid between furcatus and hnnhivo. Gray 

 has lately figured a fine Cock from Batavia, G. Temminckii. 



Lastly we come to what may be considered a dwarfed or deoraded 

 race of Jungle-fowl, peculiar to the Continent of India and Ceylon, 

 the so called Spur-fowl of sportsmen in the South, the double- 

 spurred Partridge of some. These birds, which are only of the 

 size of Partridges, have no comb nor wattles, but they have nude 

 orbits, quite the port of Jungle-fowl, and the sexes differ nearly 

 as much, in which point they do not agree with the Partrido-e 

 group. They moreover, frequent woods and dense cover, never 

 coming into the open. 



Gen. Galloperdix, Blyth. 



Char. — Bill somewhat lengthened ; orbits nude ; tail moderately 

 long, broad, of 14 feathers, held erect and folded as in fowls ; 

 tarsus of the male with two or more spurs ; females also with one 

 or more spurs. Of small size. Sexes difier much in colour. 



Only three species are known at present. 



814. Galloperdix spadiceus, Gmelin. 



Tetrao, apud Gmelin — Blyth, Cat. 1458— Hardwicke, 111. 

 Ind. Zool. 1 pi. 42 f. 2— Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. VI. pi. 3—, 

 SYKES,Cat. 160— Jerdon, Cat.274— Polyplectronnorthia?, Gray, 

 Hardwicke, 111. I. Z. I. pi. 43, f. 1 (the female)— CAoto jangli 

 murgli^ H. — Yerra kodi, and Jitta kodi, Tel. — Saravi koH, Tam. 

 Kokatri, Mahr. 



The Eed Spur-fowl. 



Descr. — Male, head and nape dusky olive-brown ; the forehead 

 and round the eye pale whity brown, somewhat buff in some 

 individuals ; chin, throat, and sides of neck pale brown ; the rest 

 of the body both above and below, rich brown-chesnut or bay ; 

 each feather pale edged ; primaries brown ; the secondaries and 

 tertiaries more or less minutely mottled ; tail with the central 

 feathers chesnut, the others dark-brown, more or less mottled, this 

 disappearing with age ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts, olivaceous. 



