4':^^^ Lloyd's katitral historvI 



First primary flight-feather considerably shorter than the 

 tenth ; the fifth sh'ghtly 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. 

 variusY down the middle of the throat ; and the tarsi are 

 armed with long, sharp, curved spurs. 



In the females the comb is rudin entary, the wattles absent, 

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

 veloped on the feet. 



I. THE RED JUNGLE-FOWL. CALLUS CALLUS. 



Phasiamis gallus^ Linn. S. N. i. p. 270 (1766). 



Tetrao femigincus, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 761 (1788). 



Gallics ba?ikiva,TQmvi\. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 87 (1813), 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]. 

 Gallus galliis, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 344 



(1893). 



Adult Male. — Long hackles covering the mantle and rump 

 orange-red or yelloivish'Orange;\ breast blacky 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 variiis) 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 Galhis and 

 cannot be considered generically distinct. 



t There is considerable variation in the colours of the hackles covering 

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

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

 on locality. 



