804 GALLIN&. 
2. Length, 165 to 18:25; ; expanse, 23 to 25; wing, 71 to 75; 
tail, 5°5 to 6:5; tarsus, é 3to 25 55; bill from gape, "1-9 to 1:02 ; 
weight, 1-25 Ibs. to 1+2 lbs. 
Bill slaty-brown ; irides orange-red ; face, comb, and wattles 
red ; legs slaty-black. 
Male, rich golden hackles on the head, neck, throat and breast, 
paler on the sides of the neck and posteriorly ; ear-coverts white ; 
back purplish-brown in the middle, rich orange-brown on the 
sides ; upper tail-coverts lengthened, ‘also bright orange ; wings 
with the lesser and ereater-coverts black, glossed with green ; 
median-coverts rich dull maroon ; primaries dusky, with pale 
edges; secondaries chestnut externally, dusky within ;tertiaries 
glossy black ; tail with the central feathers rich glossy green-black, 
the gloss diminishing on the lateral feathers; beneath from the 
breast unglossed black ; thigh-coverts the same. , 
The Jungle Hen has the general color yellowish-brown, 
minutely mottled with dark brown; and some of the feathers, 
especially of the upper back and wing-coverts, having conspi- 
cuously pale shafts ; the head dusky above, passing into short 
hackles of dark brown, edged with bright yellow on the neck 
and sides of the breast; quills and tail dark brown; the central 
rectrices edged with mottled-brown ; ear-coverts yellowish ; a line 
down the throat deep bright red-brown, ending in a point below 
and passing up ina line behind the ears to join a small super- 
cilium of the same hue; breast pale rufous-brown, with central 
pale streaks, lighter on the middle of the belly and becoming 
dull brown on the flanks, vent, thigh-coverts, and under tail- 
coverts. 
I have been assured by a well known sportsman that the Red 
Jungle Fowl occurs in Central India, but it must be very rare as 
no one else seems ever to have met with it. 
Gallus sonnerati, Tem. 
813.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 539; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 5; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol, 
IX, p. 421; Game Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 281; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 131. 
THE GREY JUNGLE FOowL. 
Jangli Murghi, Hin. 
&. Length, 28 to32; expanse, 27 to 31; wing, 9°35 to 9°65; 
tail, 14 to 16; tarsus, 2°85 to 3; bill from. gape, 1:3; weight, 
148 to 24 lbs. 
9. Length, 18 to 20; expanse, 26 to 27; wing, 78 to 83; 
tail, 6 to 7; tarsus, 22 to 2:5; bill from gape, 1:2; weight, 1,9, 
to 1} lbs. 
Bill yellowish-horny; comb, face, and wattles red; irides 
orange-brown ; legs and feet horny- yellowish. 
Whole head and neck, with the hackles, blackish-grey, with 
