14 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
3. GALLUS LLUS (Linneus). 
RED JUNGLE FOWL. 
Phasianus gallus LINN=US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 158. 
Gallus bankiva TEMMINCEK, Pig. et Gall. (1813), 2, 87. 
Gallus gallus GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 344; SHarpr, Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 39; OaTEs, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1901), 1, 59; McGrecor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 8. 
? Gallus stramineicollis SHARPE, Proc. Zool. Soe. (1879), 317.* 
La-bi-yu, Lubang, Manila, and generally; ma-noc’ i-has’, Bohol. 
Balabae (Steere); Basilan (Hverett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol 
(McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Camiguin 
N. (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Hvereit, Steere Exp., Bourns & 
Worcester, McGregor) ; Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor); Guimaras (Meyer, Steere 
Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Schmacker, Whitehead, McGregor) ; 
Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindanao (Everett, 
Steere Hxp., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor, 
Porter); Negros (Bourns & Worcester, Keay); Palawan (Steere, Whitehead, 
Platen, Bourns & Worcester, White); Panay (Steere, Bowrns & Worcester) ; 
Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Sibuyan (Bourns € Worcester, McGregor); Siquijor (Steere Exp., Celestino) ; 
Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns & Worcester) ; Tablas (Bourns &€ Worcester); Ticao 
(McGregor). Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Indo-Malayan Islands, Indo-Chinese 
countries. 
Adult male.—Sides of head, chin, and throat clothed with scattered 
hair-like feathers; ear protected by short close-set feathers; feathers on 
top of head, neck, and mantle lanceolate, those of mantle very long; head, 
neck, and sides of neck dark reddish brown, becoming lighter and 
yellowish near ends of longest feathers, and forming a zone of orange- 
yellow, the tips again darker, reddish, and shaft-lnes darker; mantle 
feathers hidden by hackles, and lesser coverts blackish brown with slight 
gloss; lower back and median coverts rich maroon-red forming a wide 
crescent ; lanceolate rump feathers dark orange-red; below (except a few 
lanceolate reddish feathers on throat) blackish brown with a slight green 
gloss not always evident; primaries dark brown edged with buff; second- 
aries dark brown with exposed outer webs dark cinnamon, mottled near 
* The status of Gallus stramineicollis, described from a specimen collected in 
Sulu by Burbidge, is somewhat doubtful; Grant considers it a domestic bird. 
The original description follows: 
“General color above black, shot with green and purple; wing-coverts like 
the back, the innermost and the scapulars with a slight subterminal shine of 
coppery brown; primary-coverts and primaries black, the secondaries externally 
green; feathers of the lower back and rump straw-yellow, with darker longitudinal 
centers of black or green; upper tail-coverts and tail glossy oil-green; crown of 
head and nape black; hind-neck and neck-hackles, as well as sides of neck, straw- 
yellow, deeper on the hind-neck, with green longitudinal centers to the feathers; 
remainder of under surface of body black with a green gloss; comb short and 
rounded; sides of face and entire throat bare. Total length 34.5 inches [876 
mm.], culmen 1.1 [28], wing 9.0 [229], tail 17.5 [445], tarsus 3.4 [86].” 
