y? 



THE IBIS. 



FOURTH SERIES. 



No. XXI. JANUARY 1882. 



I. — Ornithological Notes made in the Straits Settlements and 

 in the Western States of the Malay Peninsula. By Lieut. 

 H. H. Kelham, 74tli Highlanders. 



[Continued from 'The Ibis' for 1881, p. 532.] 



Gallus ferrugineus, Gm. The Jungle-fowl. 



The common Jungle-fowl, the " Ayam-utan " of the Malays, 

 is exceedingly plentiful throughout the native states ; but I 

 never met with it on the island of Singapore, and it is not 

 common, if, indeed, found at all on Pulo Penang. 



Whether or not the Malay species, Temminck^s G. bankiva, 

 is really distinct from the Indian, it is hard to say ; but if it 

 is distinct, both kinds are certainly found in the Malay 

 countries ; for while stationed in Perak I shot, out of the 

 same tract of jungle, unmistakable specimens of G. ferru- 

 gineus, with the rich golden hackles and white ear-patches, 

 also birds of far darker, in one case almost black, plumage. 

 But the wild Jungle-fowl interbreed so much with domestic 

 roosters from the villages, that I cannot help thinking these 

 dark-coloured birds to be the results of such intercourse 

 particularly as many of them, though very unlike the typical 



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