ITE JUNGLE-FOWL., 47 
Thaumalea amherstia, Wagier, Isis, 1832, p. 1228; Sclater, List 
of Phas. p. 5, pl. 3 (£863); Gould, -B. Asia, vu. pl. 20 
(1866) ; Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. p. xx. pl. xiv. (1872). 
Chrysolophus amherstia, G. R. Gray, List. Gallinz. Brit. Mus. p. 
30 (1867); Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxi. p. 342 
(1893). _ 
Adult Male—Top of the head dark dvonze-green ; long occipi- 
tal crest blood-red ; cape-like feathers covering the back of the 
neck pure white, margined and barred with black glossed with 
steel-blue ; shoulder-feathers, mantle, and chest dark-green ; 
rump-feathers black, broadly tipped with yellowish-buff ; throat 
and fore-neck dbrowmnish-black with some dark greenish gloss ; 
rest of under-parts pure white barred with black on the flanks; 
middle pair of tail-feathers white, with arched black bars on 
both webs and wavy black lines across the interspaces. Naked 
skin round eye blue. Total length, 50 inches; wing, 8:2; 
tail, 36; tarsus, 3°I. 
Adult Female.— Similar to the female of C. pzctus, but there is 
a naked blue space round the eye as in the male. 
Range.—The mountains of Western China and Eastern 
Tibet. 
Eggs. (Laid in confinement.)—Short stout ovals, pale buff. 
shell smooth, fine, and rather glossy. Average measurements, 
1°8 by 1°4 inch. 
THE JUNGLE-FOWL. GENUS GALLUS. 
Gallus, Linn. Faun. Suecica, p. 61 (1746) ; Temm. Pig. et 
Gall i. p. 87 (1873). 
Type, Gallus gallus (Linn.). 
Tail composed of fourteen or sixteen (in G. varius) feathers, 
— laterally compressed and curved downwards, the middle pair (in 
_ the males) being much the longest, about twice as long as the 
second pair and nearly four times as long as the outer pair, 
