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Adult Male.— Hackles covering the back of the neck and 

 mantle black, fringed with grey^ and with a yelloivish spot like 

 sealing ivax at the extremity ; a patch of wing-coverts similarly 

 marked, but the wax-like spots longer and orange-chestnut; 

 hackles on sides of rump similarly ornamented, but fringed 

 with reddish-orange ; lower back and under-parts black, glossed 

 with purple, and edged with grey, and with narrow white shaft 

 stripes. Total length, 28 inches; wing, 9; tail, 16-5 : tarsus. 



Adult Female. — Most like the female of G. lafayetti, the breast- 

 feathers being white, fringed and marked with black, but the 

 outer w^ebs of the secondary quills yf//<7v ?nottled y;\\h s.indy- 

 brown and black, and the breast-feathers devoid of the thick 

 black cross-bars. Total length, 16-5 inches; wing, 8-o ; tail, 

 5"2 ; tarsus, 27. 



Range.— Western, Southern, and Central India, bounded on 

 the north-east by the valley of the Godaveri, and on the north- 

 west by the Aravalli Hills. 



Habits. — Like their northern congeners, these are eminently 

 birds of jungly and hilly or broken ground, and are not to be 

 found at any distance from these in level, thoroughly cultivated, 

 tracts; but throughout all the hilly tracts within the limits 

 indicated, the entire range of the Western Ghats, the Satpuras, 

 and all their southern ramifications, the Nilgiris, Pulneys, 

 Anamallis, Shervaroys, and the like, they occur, and, where 

 not persecuted, in great abundance, from near sea-level to at 

 least 5,500 feet elevation. Indeed, individuals may be met 

 with up to fully 7,000 feet, as on the higher slopes of Doda- 

 betta. {Hiune.) 



The late Mr. W. R. Davison writes :—'• Unlike the Red 

 Jungle-Fowl, this species is not gregarious, and though occasion- 

 ally one meets with small coveys, these always consist of only 

 one or two adults, the rest being more or less immature. As 

 a rule, they are met with singly or in pairs. The crow of the 



