4S Allen's naturalist's library'. 



First primary flight-feather considerably shorter than the: 

 tenth ; the fifth slightly the longest. 



In the males a high comb extends along the middle of the 

 head from the base of the bill to behind the eyes, the margin 

 being serrated or entire; the sides of the face, chin, and throat 

 are naked, either with two pairs of wattles situated below the 

 ears and on each side of the throat, or with a single wattle (in G. 

 varius)* down the middle of the throat ; and the tarsi are 

 armed with long, sharp, curved spurs. 



In the females the comb is rudinentary, the wattles absent, 

 the middle tail-feathers are not elongate, and spurs are not de- 

 veloped on the feet. 



I. THE RED JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS GALLUS. 



Phasiamis galliis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766). 



Tetrao ferrugmcus^ Gmel. S. N. i. p. 761 (1788). 



Gallus ba?ikiva, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 87 (18 13), iii. p. 654 



(i8iS)- 

 Gallus ferrugineus^ Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 32 (1872); 



Hume and Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 217, cum tab. 



(1878); Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. B. iii. 



p. 417 (1890); Tegetmeier, Ibis, 1890, p. 304 [Domestic 



Breeds]. 

 Galhis gallus, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. E. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 344 



(1893). 



Adult Male. — Long hackles covering the mantle and rump 

 orange-red or yellowish-orange ;\ breast black, slightly glossed 

 with green. 



In June the hackles and long tail-feathers are moulted both 

 in this and in the following species, and the former are replaced 



* The Javan Jungle-Fowl {Gallus varius) differs, as noted above, from 

 the other species in having sixteen tail-feathers and a single wattle down 

 the middle of the throat, but, in all other respects, it is a typical Gallus and 

 cannot be considered generically distinct. 



t There is considerable variation in the colours of the hackles coverin<T 

 the mantle and rump and other parts of the plumage in different specimens, 

 but these diflerences appear to be merely individual, and are not dependent 

 on locality. 



