THE JUNGLF. I-OWL. 



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the branches of trees. Mr. Blyth has reir.arked that his cross- 

 bred eggs never produced chicks, but I have never found 

 any difficulty in this respect. The crowing of the cock-birds 

 is very shrill, and like that of the Frizzled IJantams. In the 

 wild state it is monogamous." 



Mr. Hume remarks again :— " I do not agree with Hutton 

 that they are always monogamous, because I have constantly 

 found several hens in company with a single cock, but I have 

 also repeatedly shot pairs without finding a single other hen in 

 the neighbourhood ; and if you have good dogs (and you can 

 do nothing in jungle with either these or Pheasants zu/Z/iouf 

 dogs) you are sure to see and /lear, even if you get no shot at 

 them, all the birds there are." 



Nest.— Generally a shallow hole scraped out of a heap of 

 dead leaves in any dense thicket, from almost sea-level up to 

 5,000 feet. The period of incubation varies from January to 

 July, according to locality, being earlier farther south. 



Eggs.— Usually five or six in number, though as many as 

 nine eggs are sometimes found, and Major Wardlaw Ramsay 

 took a nest in Karen-nee containing eleven eggs. 



Typically like miniature hen's eggs, but varying much in 

 size and shape; generally pale yellowish-brown, but occasion- 

 ally reddish-brown. Average measurements, 178 by 1-36 

 inch. 



II. THE CEYLON JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS LAFAYETTI. 



Ga//us lafayetii, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 491 (1831). 



Galliis stanleyi, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 43, fig. i. 

 (1830-32); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds 'ind^ i 

 pi. (1878). 



Galliis lafayetii, Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pi. 18 (1849); EHiot, 

 Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. '7^2> (1872); Legge, B. Ceylon,' 

 in. p. 736, cum tab. (1880); Gates, ed. Hume's Nests and 

 Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 442 (1890); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 348 (1893;. 



