56 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
Adult Male—Hackles covering the back of the neck and 
mantle black, fringed with grey, and with a yellowish spot like 
sealing wax at the extremity ; a patch of wing-coverts similarly 
marked, but the wax-like spots longer and orange-chestnut ; 
hackles on sides of rump similarly ornamented, but fringed 
with reddish-orange ; lower back and under-parts black, glossed 
with purple, and edged with grey, and with narrow white shaft 
stripes. Total length, 28 inches; wing, 9; tail, 16°5 ; tarsus, 
271. 
Adult Female-—Most like the female of G. /afayettz, the breast- 
feathers being w/z¢e, fringed and marked with black, but the 
outer webs of the secondary quills fizely mottled with sandy- 
brown and black, and the breast-feathers devord of the thick 
biack cross-bars. ‘Total length, 16°5 inches; wing, 8:0; tail, 
5/2; tarsus, 2°7. 
Range.—Western, Southern, and Central India, bounded on 
the north-east by the valley of the Godaveri, and on the north- 
west by the Aravalli Hills. 
Habits.—Like their northern congeners, these are eminently 
birds of jungly and hilly or broken ground, and are not to be 
found at any distance from these in level, thoroughly cultivated, 
tracts; but throughout all the hilly tracts within the limits 
indicated, the entire range of the Western Ghats, the Satpuras, 
and all their southern ramifications, the Nilgiris, Pulneys, 
Anamallis, Shervaroys, and the like, they occur, and, where 
not persecuted, in great abundance, from near sea-level to at 
least 5,500 feet elevation. Indeed, individuals may be met 
with up to fully 7,000 feet, as on the higher slopes of Doda- 
betta. (Aume.) 
The late Mr. W. R. Davison writes :—‘“ Unlike the Red 
Jungle-Fowl, this species is not gregarious, and though occasion- 
ally one meets with small coveys, these always consist of only 
one or two adults, the rest being more or less immature. As 
a rule, they are met with singly or in pairs. ‘The crow of the 
