14 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIUDS. 



3. CALLUS CALLUS (Linmeus). 

 BED JUNGLE FOWL. 



Phasianus gallus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 158. 



Gallus bankiva TEMMINCK, Pig. et Gall. (1813), 2, 87. 



Gallus gallus GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 344; SHABPE, Hand- 

 List (1899), 1, 39; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1901), 1 f 59; MCGREGOR 

 and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 8. 



f Gallus stramineicollis SHARPE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1879), 317.* 



La-bu-yu, Lubang, Manila, and generally; ma-noc* i-has', Bohol. 



Balabac (Steere) ; Basilan (Everett, Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Bohol 

 (McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Calamianes (Bourns d Worcester); Camiguin 

 N. (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns d 

 Worcester, McGregor) ; Fuga (Whitehead, McGregor) ; Guimaras (Meyer, Steere 

 Exp.) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Schmacker, Whitehead, McGregor) ; 

 Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (Bourns d Worcester); Mindanao (Everett, 

 Steere Exp., Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester, McGregor, 

 Porter) ; Negros (Bourns d Worcester, Keay) ; Palawan (Steere, Whitehead, 

 Platen, Bourns d Worcester, White) ; Panay (Steere, Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Romblon (Bourns d Worcester) ; Samar (Steere Exp., Bourns d Worcester) ; 

 Sibuyan (Bourns d Worcester, McGregor) ; Siquijor (Steere Exp., Celestino) ; 

 Sulu (Guillemard, Bourns d Worcester); Tablas (Bourns d Worcester); Ticao 

 (McGregor). Malay and Indian Peninsulas, Indo-Malayan Islands, Indo-Chinese 

 countries. 



Adult male. Sides of head, chin, and throat clothed with scattered 

 hair-like feathers; ear protected by short close-set feathers; feathers on 

 top of head, neck, and mantle lanceolate, those of mantle very long ; head, 

 neck, and sides of neck dark reddish brown, becoming lighter and 

 yellowish near ends of longest feathers, and forming a zone of orange- 

 yellow, the tips again darker, reddish, and shaft-lines darker; mantle 

 feathers hidden by hackles, and lesser coverts blackish brown with slight 

 gloss; lower back and median coverts rich maroon-red forming a wide 

 crescent; lanceolate rump feathers dark orange-red; below (except a few 

 lanceolate reddish feathers on throat) blackish brown with a slight green 

 gloss not always evident ; primaries dark brown edged with buff ; second- 

 aries dark brown with exposed outer webs dark cinnamon, mottled near 



* The status of Gallus stramineicollis, described from a specimen collected in 

 Sulu by Burbidge, is somewhat doubtful; Grant considers it a domestic bird. 

 The original description follows: 



"General color above black, shot with green and purple; wing-coverts like 

 the back, the innermost and the scapulars with a slight subterminal shine of 

 coppery brown; primary-coverts and primaries black, the secondaries externally 

 green; feathers of the lower back and rump straw-yellow, with darker longitudinal 

 centers of black or green; upper tail-coverts and tail glossy oil-green; crown of 

 head and nape black; hind-neck and neck-hackles, as well as sides of neck, straw- 

 yellow, deeper on the hind-neck, with green longitudinal centers to the feathers; 

 remainder of under surface of body black with a green gloss; comb short and 

 rounded; sides of face and entire throat bare. Total length 34.5 inches [876 

 mm.], culmen 1.1 [28], wing 9.0 [229], tail 17.5 [445], tarsus 3.4 [86]." 



