THE PHEASANTS 



2195 



breast and sides with dark brown. This species has been imported from Western 

 China and Eastern Tibet to Europe, where, being of a hardy nature, it thrives in 

 aviaries. 



The game fowls inhabit the jungles of the Indo-Malayan countries 

 and many of the adjacent islands; the males differing from the other 

 birds of this group in having a high fleshy comb extending along the middle of the 



Game Fowls 



COCK AND HEN OF AMHERST'S PHEASANT. 



(One-fourth natural size.) 



head from the base of the bill, and the sides of the face, chin, and throat naked, 

 and provided with one or two more wattles. The red jungle fowl (Gallus banciva}, 

 with its serrated comb and double-wattled throat, closely resembles its domestic 

 descendant the game cock in the colors of its plumage, and is a common denizen of 

 the well-watered jungle country of the lower ranges of the Himalayas from Kashmir 

 to Assam, and parts of Central India, especially in the vicinity of scattered cultiva- 



