GALLUS. G5 



General colour of the plumage, including crest, metallic violet blue ; sides of 

 the body streaked with white ; centre of abdomen and vent, secondaries and 

 lateral tail feathers black ; lower back and rump glistening fiery chestnut ; 

 primaries brown ; central pair of tail feathers white, the next pair white, with the 

 basal half of the outer web brown. T\iQ female has the whole upper plumage 

 chestnut ; the chin and throat albescent ; the front and sides of the neck 

 streaked with white ; the head, hind neck and upper back plain ; all the other 

 parts finely vermiculated with black ; breast black, the feathers with chestnut 

 tips and white margins ; upper abdomen, sides of the body and thighs black, 

 the feathers margined with white ; lower abdomen and vent white ; under tail 

 coverts chestnut. Bill whitish to horny brown ; facial skin smalt blue ; legs and 

 feet vermilion red ; irides pale red. 



Length. — 27-5 to 29 inches; tail 10 to iO"5 ; wing io'75 to I2-I2; tarsus 

 4*25 to 4-4; bill from gape i'6 to r8. Female — 23 to 24 inches; tail 7*5 to 

 9; wing 9-7 to iO'7S ; tarsus 3'5 to 375 ; bill from gape r6 to V], 



i/(Z(5.— Tenasserim, in the south, extending down the INIalay Peninsula. 

 According to Davison it frequents thick evergreen forests in small parties of 

 five or six, feeding there on berries, tender leaves, and insects. Hume 

 says they appear to breed in the monsoon. The only Q^g he obtained was laid 

 by a captured hen in July. The q%% is simply like a large game fowl's &gg. 



Sub-Family-GALLIN^. 



Head generally furnished with fleshy crests and wattles, crested or sub- 

 crested ; tail of 14 feathers, more or less divaricate, and held demi-erect ; 

 upper tail coverts of males elongated and pendant. 



Gen. GalluS- — Linn. 



Head furnished with a fleshy crest ; face and wattles nude ; tarsus in males 

 spurred ; other characters as in the sub-family. 



83. Gallus ferrugineus (Gw.), Jerd., B. i^id. ii. p. 236; Elliot, 



Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 32 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs hid. B. p. 528 ; id., Str. F. 

 iii. p. 171 ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 148 ; Oates, Str. F. v. p. 1O4 ; Htime and 

 Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 442 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. in; l/ujfie and Marsh., Game 

 Birds i. p. 217, pi. ; Bingham, Str. F. x. p. 195 ; Oates, Str. F. x. p. 236 ; 

 id., B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 322 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 545, No. 1 207. 

 Tetrao ferrugineus, Gm., Syst. Nat. i. p. 761.— The Common Jungle Fowl. 



Head and neck rich golden, becoming yellow on the longer hackles which 

 cover the back ; back, lesser wing coverts, and lower plumage black ; tertiaries 

 black, the greater coverts also black with a bluish tinge; median wing coverts 

 glistening maroon chestnut, also a band connecting them with the lower back, 

 which is followed by a broad band of rich purplish brown ; lower rump and 

 upper tail coverts rich golden ; tail black, glossed with greenish. 

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