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lines with dry grass or leaves. The eggs are broad ovals 
measuring about 2°70 by 2°15; in colour they are brownish- 
buff. The shell is extremely thick, much pitted, and fairly 
glossy. 
GALLUS LAFEYETTI (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 77 ; 
Legge, p. 736). 
The Ceylon Jungle Fowl. 
Description.—Male: the hackles of the neck and the 
smaller wing coverts are golden or straw-yellow with dark 
shaft-stripes ; on the crown the feathers shade into chestnut, 
on the back, scapulars, medium wing coverts, and elongated 
feathers at the side ofthe rump into shining yellowish-red 
with almost black shaft-stripes. The feathers of the lower 
back and centre of the rump are amethyst with reddish- 
chestnut margins ; the greater wing coverts are black splashed 
with dull chestnut ; primary quills dark brown, secondaries 
black with a metallic purple gloss ; tail coverts glossy violet ; 
tail feathers black with a purple and steel-blue gloss. The 
fore-neck is glossy purple, the breast bright chestnut with dark 
shaft-stripes, shading through reddish-brown on the upper ab- - 
domen into dull blackish-brown with rufous edges on the thighs 
and towards the vent. The under tail coverts are green-black. 
Female : the crown is dark brown, the sides and back of 
the neck blackish-brown with rufous edges to the feathers. 
These colours gradually shade into the fine vermiculated 
blackish-brown and buff of the back, scapulars, and wing 
coverts. The rump and tail are similarly coloured, but the 
shafts of the feathers are darker. The primary quills are 
dark brown with lighter mottlings on the outer web ; the 
secondaries and greater wing coverts are black, boldly marked 
with mottled buff cross-bars and tinged at the ends with rufous. 
The chin and throat are almost naked ; the fore-neck and 
breast are mottled black and brown with broad buff centres ; 
the lower breast and abdomen are white with broad black 
markings, which disappear towards the vent. The under tail 
coverts are of the same colour as the tail. 
Young males resemble females, but the upper plumage is 
more rufous, and there is no white on the under parts. 
