THE JUNGLE-FOWL. 47 



'Thaiinialea ainhersiim^ Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1228; Sclater, List 

 of Phas. p. 5, pi. 3 (1863); Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 20 

 (1866) ; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. p. xx. pi. xiv. (1872). 



Chrysolophiis amherstice, G. R. Gray, List. Gallinae. Brit, Mus. p. 

 30 (1867); Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 342 



(1893). 

 Adult Male. — Top of the head dark bronze-green ; long occipi- 

 tal crest blood-red ; cape-like feathers covering the back of the 

 neck pure white, margined and barred with black glossed with 

 steel-blue ; shoulder-feathers, mantle, and chest dark-green ; 

 rump-feathers black, broadly tipped with yellowish-buff; throat 

 and fore-neck bi'ownish-black with some dark greenish gloss ; 

 rest of under-parts /^/;r^ white barred with black on the flanks; 

 middle pair of tail-feathers white, with arched black bars on 

 both webs and wavy black lines across the interspaces. Naked 

 skin round eye blue. Total length, 50 inches; wing, 8*2; 

 tail, 36 ; tarsus, 3*1. 



Adult Female. — Similar to the female of C. pidus, but there is 

 a naked blue space round the eye as in the male. 



Eange. — The mountains of Western China and Eastern 

 Tibet. 



Eggs. (Laid in confinement.) — Short stout ovals, pale buff - 

 shell smootli, fine, and rather glossy. Average measurements, 

 1*8 by I '4 inch. 



THE JUNGLK-FOWL. GENUS GALLUS. 



Gallus, Linn. Faun. Suecica, p. 61 (1746) ; Temm. Pig. et 

 Gall. ii. p. 87 (18 1 3). 



Type, Gallus gallus (Linn.). 



Tail composed oi fourteen or sixteen (in G. varius) feathers^ 

 laterally compressed and curved downwards, the middle pair (in 

 the males) being much the longest, about twice as long as th'^' 

 second pair and nearly four times as long as the outer pair. 



