60 LLOYD’S NATURAL HISTORY. 
been obtained wild near Singapore, but no doubt had been 
imported. 
Among the doubtfully distinct species of Jungle-Fowl is a 
bird which has been named Gallus eneus |Temm. PI. Col. v. 
pl. 3 [No. 374] (1825)]. The type, which is preserved in the 
Paris Museum, was obtained in Sumatra, and it is just possible 
that it may prove to be a distinct species, but at present it is 
believed by most ornithologists to be merely a hybrid between 
the Domestic Fowl and the Javan Jungle-Fowl. 
Another hybrid bird about which there can be very little 
doubt has been named and figured by G. R. Gray under the 
name Gallus temminckit (P. Z.S. 1849, p. 62, pl. vii.). The 
type of this bird is in the British Museum, and is said to have 
come from Batavia. Inthe opinion of the writer, it is a hybrid 
between the Red and Javan Jungie-Fowls, and clearly exhibits 
the characters of both parents. ‘The comb is toothed, and in 
addition to the large median throat wattle, there is a small 
lateral pair. Gallus violaceus, Kelsall (J. As. Soc. Str. Br. No. 
xxiv. p. 167 (1891) and No. xxv. p. 173) is also in all proba- 
bility a hybrid between the above species. The type, supposed 
to have come from Borneo, was living in the Botanic Gardens 
at Singapore. The bird from the Sulu Islands has been named 
Gallus stramineicollis by Dr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 317), but 
it is probably only the offspring of a domestic variety run 
wild. 
THE PEACOCK-PHEASANTS. GENUS POLYPLECTRON, 
Polyplectron, Temm. Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 363 (1813). 
Type, P. chinguis (Miill.). 
Tail composed of ¢wenty to twenty-four feathers, large, full, 
and rounded, the middle pair being about twice as long as the 
outer pair, and each ornamented with one or a pair of metallic 
oceli?, which are rudimentary or absent in the females of some 
species, 
