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Bataan, measure respectively : 47 by 36 ; 44 by 34 ; 45 by 35 ; 46 by 35. 

 In color the eggs are light creamy buff; the shape is similar to tliat 

 found in eggs from the domestic varieties. 



The jungle fowl is found throughout the Philippines and the males are 

 frequently domesticated by the natives and used for their national pas- 

 time of cock fighting. In this country at least the wild chickens aft'ord 

 the gunner no sport whatever as they habitually remain within thick 

 tangles of brush where wing-shots are impossible, or, if by chance caught 

 in the open, they scurry to the nearest thicket. There is no great diffi- 

 culty, however, in securing specimens, if one cares to kill them sitting. 

 Their flesh is usually tender and more savory than that of the domestic 

 birds. The male has a liigh falsetto voice resembling very much that of 

 a young domestic cock. Delighting in small growth mixed with a tangle 

 of bamboo and rattan, especially if near cultivated fields, this species 

 generally avoids true forest unless there be near-by clearings. The natives 

 are very successful in taking the cocks alive by employing a live decoy 

 which they picket within a small corral of snares. 



Genus POLYPLEC'TEOX Temminck, 1807. 



Bill similar to that of Galhis; feathers of crown forming a long crest: 

 wings short and rounded; rectrices twenty-four in number and greatly, 

 graduated ; upper tail-coverts lengthened ; tarsi covered with transverse 

 plates and each tarsus armed with two or three sharp spurs ; tarsus longer 

 than middle toe with claw. 



4. POLYPLECTRON NAPOLEONIS Lesson. 



PALAWAN PEACOCK PHEASANT. 



Polyplectron napoleonis Lessox, Traite d' Orn. (1831), 487, 650; Graxt, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Miis. (1893), 22, 361; Bourns and Worcester, 

 Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 43; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 8. 



Polyplectron nehrkornce Blasius, Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien (1891), 1; Grant, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 360. 



Polyplectrum napoleonis Shabpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 39. 



Pavo real, Spanish name. 



Palawan (Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Bourns <6 Worcester, White). 



Adult male. — Black; top of head, crest, and hind neck green, changing 

 with the light to purple ; a large white patch from base of lower mandible 

 extending over ear-coverts; a narrow superciliary line of white (this line 

 is absent in some specimens; in others wider and confluent on nape); 

 mantle, secondaries, and greater and median wing-coverts green, changing 

 to blue and purple, bases of the feathers black; remainder of wing brown 

 or blackish; back and rump black, thickly marked with small, rusty buff 

 spots; longest coverts and rectrices similar but the spots fewer and 

 lighter and each feather with two large, round or oval spots of peacock- 



