16 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Bataan, measure respectively: 4% by 36; 44 by 34; 45 by 35; 46 by 35. 
In color the eggs are light cf®@tmy buff; the shape is similar to that 
found in eggs from the domestic varieties. 
The jungle fowl is found throughout the Philippines and the males are 
frequently domesticated by the natives and used for their national pas- 
time of cock fighting. In this country at least the wild chickens afford 
the gunner no sport whatever as they habitually remain within thick 
tangles of brush where wing-shots are impossible, or, if by chance caught 
in the open, they scurry to the nearest thicket. There is no great difh- 
culty, however, in securing specimens, if one cares to kill them sitting. 
Their flesh is usually tender and more savory than that of the domestic 
birds. The male has a high falsetto voice resembling very much that of 
a young domestic cock. Delighting in small growth mixed with a tangle 
of bamboo and rattan, especially if near cultivated fields, this species 
generally avoids true forest unless there be near-by clearings. ‘The natiyes 
are very successful in taking the cocks alive by employing a live decoy 
which they picket within a small corral of snares. 
Genus POLYPLECTRON Temminck, 1807. 
Bill similar to that of Gallus; feathers of crown forming a long crest: 
wings short and rounded; rectrices twenty-four in number and greatly 
graduated ; upper tail-coverts lengthened; tarsi covered with transverse 
plates and each tarsus armed with two or three sharp spurs; tarsus longer 
than middle toe with claw. 
4. POLYPLECTRON NAPOLEONIS Lesson. 
PALAWAN PEACOCK PHEASANT. 
Polyplectron napoleonis LEsson, Traite d’ Orn. (1831), 487, 650; GRANT, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 361; BourNsS and WORCESTER, 
Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Oce. Papers (1894), 1, 43; McGrrcor and 
WorcesTER, Hand-List (1906), 8. 
Polyplectron nehrkorne Buastus, Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien (1891), 1; GRANT, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 360. 
Polyplectrum napoleonis SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 1, 39. 
Pavo real, Spanish name. ¢ 
Palawan (Hverett, Whitehead, Platen, Bourns & Worcester, White). 
Adult male.—Black ; top of head, crest, and hind neck green, changing 
with the ight to purple; a large white patch from base of lower mandible 
extending over ear-coverts ; a narrow superciliary line of white (this line 
is absent in some specimens; in others wider and confluent on nape) ; 
mantle, secondaries, and greater and median wing-coverts green, changing 
to blue and purple, bases of the feathers black; remainder of wing brown 
or blackish ; back and rump black, thickly marked with small, rusty buff 
spots; longest coverts and rectrices similar but the spots fewer and 
lighter and each feather with two large, round or oval spots of peacock- 
