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yellow spots, each feather being blackish with the shaft white 
and two spots, the terminal one of somewhat square form, as 
if a drop of yellow sealing wax; the other whitish, passing on 
the wing-coverts into oblong spots of glistening wood-brown ; 
ear-coverts pale rufous; the rest of the plumage above and below 
blackish-grey, the feathers white shafted, and those on the 
flanks broadly centred and tipped with wood-brown; outermost 
primaries dusky, with the shaft and narrow edge pale; the 
others black, faintly glossed; upper tail-coverts glossy purple ; 
central tail-feathers glossy-green, the gloss diminishing on the 
lateral feathers; vent dirty-brownish; under tail-coverts glossy 
black with white shafts. 
The hen is mottled brown above, with pale shafts on the 
wing-coverts; beneath blackish-brown, the feathers broadly 
centred with pure white, passing into plain dull brown on the 
flanks, thigh-coverts, vent, and under tail-coverts; head and neck 
rufous-brown, paler on the chin and throat, ‘and somewhat 
yellowish ; primaries dark brown, the secondaries mottled brown ; 
tail blackish-brown, edged with mottled-brown. 
The Grey Jungle Fowl is a common permanent resident all 
along the Sahyadri Range, and in the adjoining forests, includ- 
ing the hilly parts of Ratnagiri and Belgaum; it is also common 
on Mount Aboo, and indeed all along the Aravelli Range at all 
events as far as KErinpoora, where I have myself obtained it. It 
breeds during May and June, the eggs being deposited on the 
ground under a bush; there is not much nest to speak of, only 
a few dry leaves. I have never found more than six eggs ina 
nest ; they are oval in shape, pointed at one end, coarse in texture 
and closely pitted all over like the eggs of guinea fowl. They 
are creamy or of a rich cafe-au-lait color, most of them spotted 
or speckled with brownish red. They measure 1°84 inches in 
length by 1:38 in breadth. 
Genus, Galloperdix, Blyth. 
Bill somewhat lengthened; orbits nude; tail moderately long, 
broad, of fourteen feathers, held erect and folded as in fowls ; 
tarsus of the male with two or more spurs; females also with 
one or more spurs, of small size. Sexes differ much in color. 
Galloperdix spadiceus, Gmelin. 
814.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 541; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p.5; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 422; Game Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 247; Swinhoe and 
Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 131. 
THe Rep Spur Fowt. 
Length, 13 to 15; expanse, 17 to 20; wing, 5°62 to 6°75 ; tail, 
45 to 6; tarsus, 16 to 1°75; bill from gape, 1 to 12; weight, 
9 to 14 oz. 
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