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pitted all over with pores. The colour varies from pale 

 creamy-white to rich brownish-buff. Every intermediate form 

 between these two types can be found. Average measure- 

 ments, I "84 by i'38 inch. 



IV. THE JAVAN JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS VARIUS. 



Phasianus variiis^ Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc. x. pi. 353. 

 Gallus varius^ Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 35 (1872) ; 



Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Erit. Mus. xxii. p. 352 (1893). 

 Gallus furcatiis, Temm. Pig. etGall. ii. p. 261 (1813); iii. p. 662 



(1815) ; id., PI. Col. V. pi. iv. [No. 483] (1829) ; J. E. Gray, 



111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 43, fig. 2 (1830-32). 

 Galius javanicuSj Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 185 (1822). 



{P/ate XXVI.) 



Adult Male. — Easily recognised from the three species pre- 

 viously mentioned by having the margiji of the comb entire^ 

 and a si7igle wattle down the middle of the throat. Back of 

 the neck and upper mantle covered with short square-tipped 

 feathers^ purplish-blue, edged with greenish-bronze ; lower 

 mantle golden-green, shot with blue, shading into violet-bronze 

 towards the tips and all the feathers margined with black ; 

 hackles of the lower back long and black, narrowly margined 

 with yellow ; lesser and median wing-coverts elongate, orange- 

 red, with a broad black stripe down the middle ; under-parts 

 black. Total length, 28 inches ; wing, 9 ; tail, 11*5 ; tarsus^ 2-9. 



Adult Female. — Neck and upper mantle sandy-brown, the 

 feathers of the latter with sub-marginal blackish bands and 

 dusky centres ; rest of upper-parts blacky slightly glossed with 

 green, and irregularly barred and margined ivith buff ; throat 

 white; under-parts buff^ with dark margins to the chest-feathers 

 and mottlings on the flanks. Total length, 15-3 inches; wing, 

 77; tail, 4-5 ; tarsus, 2-3. 



Range. — Java, Lombock, and Flores. it is also said to have 



