306 GALLIN 2. 
Bill dusky-red, horny at tip; irides from dull yellow to dusky- 
brown; legs and feet always red but vary in shade, from vermi- 
lion-red to dull pink. 
Male, head and nape dusky olive-brown; the forehead and 
round the eye pale whity-brown, somewhat buff in some indi- 
viduals; chin, throat, and sides of neck, pale brown; the rest 
of the body, both above and below, rich brown-chesnut or bay, 
each feather pale edged; primaries brown; the secondaries 
and tertiaries more or less minutely mottled; tail with the 
central feathers chesnut, the others dark brown, more or less 
mottled, this disappearing with age; lower abdomen, vent, and 
under tail-coverts, olivaceous. 
The female has the crown dusky-blackish, the neck olive-brown, 
and the rest of the upper plumage pale rufous-brown, each 
feather with two or three blackish bands, and minutely speckled, 
and the tip pale; the rump and upper tail-coverts are minutely 
freckled; the tail mostly blackish, with mottled rufous bars, 
tending to become obsolete; primaries, their coverts, and the 
winglet, spotless dusky-brown ; throat albescent ; neck olive-brown, 
the feathers becoming rufous in the centre, and tipped with 
black ; breast and flanks bright ferruginous, with narrow black 
tips ; belly dusky-brown ; under tail-coverts freckled rufous-brown. 
The male bird has usually two spurs on each leg, sometimes 
three on one, and occasionally two on one leg and one on another, 
usually long and sharp. The hen-bird generally has one on each 
leg, sometimes absent on one leg; and occasionally two on one 
leg and one on the other. . 
The Red Spur Fowl is a permanent resident on the Sahyadri 
Range, and in the forests adjoining ; it is also very common at 
Aboo. 
Since the above was written I found it very abundant at 
Baroli near Neemuch, extending at least as far as Erinpoora, 
where [have myself obtained it. It breeds during the hot season, 
making a slight nest of leaves and grass on the ground, almost 
exclusively in dense bamboo clumps. The eggs, six to eight in 
number, vary in shape, but are typically the same shape as those 
of the common hen. 
They also vary in color from pinkish-buff to creamy-white. 
They measure 1°65 inches by 1:21. 
Galloperdix lunulatus, Valence. 
815.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 543; Butler, Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 422; Game Birds of India, Vol. 
I, p. 255. 
THE PAINTED SpuR FowL. 
Length, 12 to 13°6; expanse, 17°5 to 185; wing, 5°75 to 62; 
tail, 4°3 to 5; bill from gape, 0°8 to 0°9 ; weight, 8 to 10 oz. 
Bill blackish-horny, paler beneath ; irides dark-brown ; legs and 
feet plumbeous. 
