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curved ; and both Cingalese and Tamils shoot the Jungle- 
Fowl for the market by thus decoying them. 
“While challenging each other, the males often wander 
close to paths and tracks through the jungle, and still keep up 
their call, although people may be passing, and laughing and 
shouting going on; but directly you strike off the road to 
stalk them, the sound of footsteps puts an end to the George 
Joyce, and the pugnacious bird may be heard rapidly beating a 
retreat over the fallen leaves. 
“At night they roost on trees, but do not choose very high 
branches, generally seating themselves across a moderately 
elevated horizontal limb, and, when going to rest, they utter a 
clucking note very different to the ordinary call. 
‘The hens are seldom seen near the cocks, and are very 
shy ; they may be sometimes surprised in the early morning 
scratching by the sides of the roads with their young brood, but 
on the whole are much moreseldom observed than the othersex.” 
Nest.—Similar and similarly situated to that of the Red 
Jungle-fowl. The period of incubation ranges from January 
to August. 
Eggs.— Two to four in number. Like those of the Red 
Jungle-Fowl, but minutely speckled all over with brownish- 
red, often with a few somewhat larger spots about the more 
obtuse end. Average measurements, 1°71 by 1°30 inch. 
Ill. THE GREY JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS SONNERATI, 
Gallus sonneratt, Temm. Pig. et Gall. il. p. 246 (1813) iii. p. 
650(1515)5-lemm.. PL Col. y. pls. 1 and 2 [Nos. 232, 
233| (1823); Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. 34 (1872) ; 
Gould, B. Asia, vii. pl. 56 (1877), Hume and Marshall, 
Game Birds Ind. 1. p. 231, pl. (1878) ; Oates, ed. Hume’s 
Nests and Eggs Ind. B. iil. p. 420 (1890); Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 350 (1893). 
Phasianus indicus, Leach, Zool. Misc, ii. p. 6, pl. 61 (1815). 
(Plate XX V2) 
