THE JUNGLE-FOWL. Sg 
pitted all over with pores. The colour varies from pale 
creamy-white to rich brownish-buff. Every intermediate form 
between these two types can be found. Average measure- 
ments, 1°84 by 1°38 inch. 
IV. THE JAVAN JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS VARIUS. 
Phastanus varius, Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc. x. pl. 353. 
Gallus varius, Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pl. 35 (1872) ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Prit. Mus. xxii. p. 352 (1893). 
Gallus furcatus, Temm. Pig. et Gall. il. p. 261 (1813); 11. p. 662 
(iens)1d., Pl. Col. v. pl. iv. [No 483] (1829); J. E. Gray, 
Ill. Ind. Zool. 1. pl. 43, fig. 2 (1830-32). 
Gallus avanicus, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xii. p. 185 (1822). 
(Plate XX VI.) 
Adult Male—FEasily recognised from the three species pre- 
viously mentioned by having the sargin of the comb entire, 
and a sizg/e wattle down the middle of the throat. Back of 
the neck and upper mantle covered with short sqguare-tipped 
Jeathers, purplish-blue, edged with greenish-bronze ; lower 
mantle golden-green, shot with blue, shading into violet-bronze 
towards the tips and all the feathers margined with black ; 
hackles of the lower back long and black, narrowly margined 
with yellow ; lesser and median wing-coverts elongate, orange- 
red, with a broad black stripe down the middle ; under-parts 
black. Total length, 28 inches ; wing, 9 ; tail, 11°5 ; tarsus, 2°9. 
Adult Female—Neck and upper mantle sandy-brown, the 
feathers of the latter with sub-marginal blackish bands and 
dusky centres; rest of upper-parts d/ack, slightly glossed with 
green, and trregularly barred and margined with buff; throat 
white ; wxder-parts buff, with dark margins to the chest-feathers 
and mottlings on the flanks. ‘Total length, 15°3 inches; wing, 
mew tail, 4°5 > tarsus, 2°3. 
Range. —Java, Lombock, and Flores. 1t is also said to have 
