GALLIN.E. 303 
white, striated with black; the middle-coverts deep blue ; the 
primaries and tail chesnut ; abdomen and vent black, the train 
chiefly green, beautifully ocellated ; the thigh-coverts yellowish- 
grey; head, with a crest of about twenty-four feathers only, 
webbed at the tip, and green with blue and gold reflections. 
The Peahen is chestnut brown about the head and nape; the 
neck greenish, edged with pale whity-brown ; the upper plumage 
light hair-brown, with faint wavings, increased on the upper tail- 
coverts ; quills brown, some of the wing-coverts mottled dusky 
and whitish; tail deep brown with whitish tips; chin and throat 
white ; breast asin the neck; abdomen white, with the lower 
parts and under tail-coverts brown. Length, 38 to 40 ; wing, 
16; tail, 14. The crest is shorter and duller in its tints. 
The Peacock is not indigenous to Sind, but has been intro- 
duced, and appears to be in some portions of the country fairly 
naturalized. In all other places within our limits the Peacock 
is fairly common or would be if it was not so persecuted by 
shikaries. ’ 
It is a permanent resident breeding during the rains; the 
hen scratches a depression in the soil which she lines with a few 
leaves, generally under cover. The eggs, six or eight in number, 
are broad oval in shape, creamy white or pale pinkish cafe-au- 
lait color. They are closely pitted over their whole surface 
with minute pores. They measure 2°74 inches in length by 2°05 
in breadth. 
Sus-raurLy, Galline. 
Head sometimes furnished with fleshy crest and wattles, or 
crested, or sub-crested ; tail usually of fourteen feathers, com- 
pressed, and more or less divaricate, held demi-erect ; the upper 
tail-coverts in the males are (typically) elongated and pendent, 
Gurnus, Gallus, Zin. 
Head furnished with a crest of skin; the face nude and also with 
a loose lappet or wattle ; tarsus of the male strongly spurred ; 
the spur long and strongly curved ; tail of fourteen feathers, com- 
pressed, divaricated, with the median feathers lengthened, curved 
and drooping, held semi-erect ; the backs of the feathers facing 
each other; the upper tail-coverts lengthened and curved ; 
feathers of the neck hackled, lanceolate. 
Gallus ferrugineus, Gm. 
812.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p 537; Game Birds of 
India, Vol. I, p. 217. 
THE RED JUNGLE FowL. 
3. Length, 25:0 to 28:2; expanse, 27 to 29°5 ; wing, 8°12 to 
95; tail, 11°25 to 14:3 ; tarsus, 3 to 3:12; bill from gape, 119 te 
1°37 ; weight, 12 lbs. to 2} lbs. 
