54 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Adult Male.—TTackles covering the mantle godden-orange, with 
a black band down the middle, those of the lower back and 
rump bright orange-red, with a heart-shaped spot of glossy violet 
on the terminal half of each ; chest, breast, and sides, like the 
lower mantle, orange-red, with a dark maroon stripe down the 
middle ; belly black, mottled with chestnut. ‘Total length, 30 
inches ; wing, 9; tail, 13; tarsus, 3. 
Adult Female.— Differs chiefly from the female of G. ga//us in 
having the secondary quills black and chestnut, irregularly 
barred with buff; the chest and sides mottled with black 
and buff, and with whitish centres; the dveast white, fringed 
and marked with black, ‘Total length, 17 inches ; wing, 7°5; 
tail, 4°9 ; tarsus, 2°4. 
Range.—Ceylon. 
Habits.—Colonel Vincent Legge, the well-known author ot 
“The Birds of Ceylon,” writes as follows :—“‘The Ceylon 
Jungle-Fowl inhabits, in abundance, the greater part of the 
island. In the low country, it is located in the greatest 
numbers in the northern, eastern, and south-eastern divisions, 
which, covered with jungle and possessed of a dry climate, are 
specially suitable to the habits of the birds. . . . 
‘The cock-birds are, as is the case with other species, most 
pugnacious, and pass their time in the mornings and evenings 
in giving out their well-known challenge-call, ‘CZuk George 
Joyce,” accompanied with the usual galline flap of the wings. 
By using a pocket-handkerchief doubled up into a ball, placed 
in the palm of the hand, and struck with the other, this sound 
can be fairly imitated; and if the sportsman be out of sight, 
well concealed in a hollow in the ground, or behind a huge 
log or stump, the cocks can be enticed near enough to be 
shot ; they are so shy, however, that if the least sound be 
made other than this flapping, they turn round and disappear 
at once into the thicket. ‘The natives produce the required 
sound by striking the thigh with the open hand, slightly 
