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curved ; and both Cingalese and Tamils shoot the Jungle- 

 Fowl for the market by thus decoying them. 



" While challenging each other, the males often wander 

 close to paths and tracks through the jungle, and still keep up 

 their call, although people may be passing, and laughing and 

 shouting going on ; but directly you strike off the road to 

 stalk them, the sound of footsteps puts an end to the George 

 Joyce, and the pugnacious bird may be heard rapidly beating a 

 retreat over the fallen leaves. 



" At night they roost on trees, but do not choose very high 

 branches, generally seating themselves across a moderately 

 elevated horizontal limb, and, when going to rest, they utter a 

 clucking note very different to the ordinary call. 



" The hens are seldom seen near the cocks, and are very 

 shy ; they may be sometimes surprised in the early morning 

 scratching by the sides of the roads with their young brood, but 

 on the whole are much more seldom observed than the othersex." 



Nest. — Similar and similarly situated to that of the Red 

 Jungle-Fowl. The period of incubation ranges from January 

 to August. 



Eggs. — Two to four in number. Like those of the Red 

 Jungle-Fowl, but minutely speckled all over with brownish- 

 red, often with a few somewhat larger spots about the more 

 obtuse end. Average measurements, 171 by 1*30 inch. 



III. THE GREY JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS SONNERATI. 



Gallns sorinerafi, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 246 (18 13) ; iii. p. 

 659 (1815); Temm. PI. Col. v. pis. i and 2 [Nos. 232, 

 233] (1823); Elliot, iMonogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 34 (1872); 

 Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 56 (1877), Hume and Marshall, 

 Game Birds Ind. i. p. 231, pi. (1878) ; Oates, ed. Hume's 

 Nests and Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 420 (1890); Ogilvie- 

 Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 350 (1893). 



Phasianus indicus, Leach, Zool. INIisc. ii. p. 6, pi. 61 (18 15). 



{Plate XXV,) 



