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the branches of trees. Mr. Blyth has remarked that his cross- 
bred eggs never produced chicks, but I have never found 
any difficulty in this respect. ‘The crowing of the cock-birds 
is very shrill, and like that of the Frizzled Bantams. In the 
wild state it is monogamous.” 
Mr. Hume remarks again :—‘‘I do not agree with Hutton 
that they are always monogamous, because I have constantly 
found several hens in company with a single cock, but I have 
also repeatedly shot pairs without finding a single other hen in 
the neighbourhood ; and if you have good dogs (and you can 
do nothing in jungle with either these or Pheasants wthout 
dogs) you are sure to see and fear, even if you get no shot at 
them, all the birds there are.” 
Nest.—Generally a shallow hole scraped out of a heap of 
dead leaves in any dense thicket, from almost sea-level up to 
5,000 feet. The period of incubation varies from January to 
July, according to locality, being earlier farther south. 
Eggs.— Usually five or six in number, though as many as 
nine eggs are sometimes found, and Major Wardlaw Ramsay 
took a nest in Karen-nee containing eleven eggs. 
Typically like miniature hen’s eggs, but varying much in 
size and shape; generally pale yellowish-brown, but occasion- 
ally reddish-brown. Average measurements, 1°78 by 1°36 
inch. 
Il. THE CEYLON JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS LAFAYETTI. 
Gallus lafayetii, Lesson, Traité d’Orn. p. 491 (1831). 
Gallus staniey1, \.. %. Gray, Il. Ind. Zool. 1. pl. 43, fie 
(1830-32); Hume and Marshall, Game Birds Ind. i. 
pl. (1878). 
Gallus lafayetti, Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pl. 18 (1849) ; Elliot, 
Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. 33 (1872); Legge, B. Ceylon, 
iii. p. 736, cum tab. (1880); Oates, ed. Hume’s Nests and 
Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 442 (1890) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B, 
Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 348 (1893). 
