14 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



3. GALLUS GALLUS (Linnjeus). 

 RED JUNGLE FOWL, 



Phasia7ius gallvs Linn^us, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 158. 



Gallus bankiva Temminck, Pig. et Gall. (1813), 2, 87. 



Gallus gallus Graxt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 344; Sharpe, Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 39; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1, 59; McGregor 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 8. 



? Gallus stramineicollis Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1879), 317.* 



La-bu-yu, Lubang, Manila, and generally; ma-noc' i-has', Bohol. 



Balabac (Steere) ; Basilan {Everett, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol 

 {McGregor) ; Bongao {Everett) ; Calamianes {Bourns & Worcester) ; Camiguin 

 N. (McGregor) ; Calayan {McGregor) ; Cebu {Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, McGregor); Fuga {Whitehead, McGregor); Guimaras {Meyer, Steere 

 Exp.) ; Lubang {McGregor) ; Luzon {Meyer, Schmacker, Whitehead, McGregor) ; 

 Marinduque {Steere Exp.) ; Masbate {Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao {Everett, 

 Steere Exp., Good fellow) ; Mindoro {Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, 

 Porter) ; Negros {Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan {Steere, Whitehead, 

 Platen, Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay {Steere, Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Romblon {Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar {Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Celestino) ; 

 Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns d Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns d Worcester) ; Ticao 

 (McGregor) . Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Indo-Malayan Islands, Indo-Chinese 

 countries. 



Adult male. — Sides of head, chin, and throat clothed with scattered 

 hair-like feathers; ear protected by short close-set feathers; feathers on 

 top of head, neck, and mantle lanceolate, those of mantle very long ; head, 

 neck, and sides of neck dark reddish bro^^al, becoming lighter and 

 yellowish near ends of longest feathers, and forming a zone of orange- 

 yellow, the tips again darker, reddish, and shaft-lines darker; mantle 

 feathers hidden by hackles, and lesser coverts blackish brown with slight 

 gloss; lower back and median coverts rich maroon-red forming a wide 

 crescent; lanceolate rmnp feathers dark orange-red; below (except a few 

 lanceolate reddish feathers on throat) blackish brown with a slight green 

 gloss not always evident; primaries dark brown edged with buff; second- 

 aries dark brown with exposed outer webs dark cinnamon, mottled near 



* The status of Gallus stramineicollis, described from a specimen collected in 

 Rulu by Burbidge, is somewhat doubtful; Grant considers it a domestic bird. 

 The original description follows: 



"General color above black, shot with green and purple; wing-coverts like 

 the back, the innermost and the scapulars with a slight subtcrminal shine of 

 coppery brown; primary-coverts and primaries black, the secondaries externally 

 green; feathers of the lower back and rump straw-yellow, with darker longitudinal 

 centers of black or green; upper tail-coverts and tail glossy oil-green; crown of 

 head and nape black ; hind-neck and neck-hackles, as well as sides of neck, straw- 

 yellow, deeper on the hind-neck, with green longitudinal centers to the feathers; 

 remainder of under surface of body black with a green gloss ; comb short and 

 rounded; sides of face and entire throat bare. Total length 34.5 inches [876 

 mm.], culmen 1.1 [28], wing 9.0 [229], tail 17.5 [445], tarsus 3.4 [86]." 



