546 PHASIANIN^E. 



The female has the crown rufous, the shafts darker ; hackles of the neck 

 dark brown edged with yellow ; upper plumage and wing coverts yellowish 

 brown mottled with black, and the shafts yellowish ; primaries and secondaries 

 dark brown, the outer webs of the latter and both webs of the tertiaries 

 mottled with yellowish brown ; under surface of the body reddish brown with 

 paler shaft streaks, and most of the feathers stippled with blackish. (Oa/es.) 

 Bill dark brown, reddish towards the base ; under parts dull red ; irides 

 orange red ; legs and feet purpurescent. 



Length. 25 to 28 inches; wing 8'I2 to 9-5 ; tail 11*25 to H'3; tarsus 

 3 to 3'i2; bill from gape rig to 1-37. Females do not exceed 18-5 in 

 length, and have a wing of from 7*1 to 7*5. 



Hab. Himalayas, in the lower ranges, the Dhoons, Terais, and sub-montane 

 districts. The whole of Assam, Oudh, Central and N.-W. Provinces, Eastern 

 Bengal, including the Sunderbuns, Arracan, Pegu, Tenasserim ; all the hilly 

 portions of Western Bengal and Northern and Central Provinces. Southwards 

 and eastwards, it occurs north of the Godavery, Orissa, the Tributary Mehals, 

 Ganjam, Vizagapatam, Joonaghur, Nowagur, Jeypore. There is no descrip- 

 tion of jungle from which it is absent. In the dry, level, alluvial plains and 

 semi-deserts of Upper India it is absent. It is very partial to bamboo jungle, 

 broken ground and ravines with dense vegetation. It breeds from January 

 to July, according to locality. Eggs, a pale yellowish, cafe au lait colour, 8 

 to 12 in number. 



1208. Gallus Sonnerati, Tem., PL Col. 232, 233; Jerd., B. ind. 



Hi. p. 539, No. 813; Elliot, Mon. Phas. ii. pi. 34 ; Hu??ie, Nests and Eggs 

 Jnd. B. p. 531 ; id., Str. F. iv. pp. 5, 404; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds 

 i. p. 231, pi. The GREY JUNGLE FOWL. 



Head, neck and hackles blackish grey, the feathers with white shafts and 

 two yellow spots ; wing coverts with oblong spots of wood brown ; ear coverts 

 pale rufous ; rest of the plumage blackish grey above and below, the feathers 

 with albescent shafts, those of the flanks centred and tipped with wood brown; 

 outermost primaries dusky, edged paler ; rest black ; upper tail coverts 

 glossy purple ; tail feathers glossy green, plainer on the lateral feathers ; 

 under tail coverts glossy black with white shafts. The female has the head 

 and neck rufous brown, paler on the chin and throat ; the upper surface of the 

 body is mottled with brown ; wing coverts pale shafted ; beneath blackish 

 brown, the feathers broadly centred with white ; flanks, thighs, vent and under 

 tail coverts dull brown ; primaries dark brown, the secondaries mottled brown ; 

 tail blackish brown. Bill yellowish horny ; comb, nude orbits and wattles 

 red ; irides orange brown ; legs and feet horny yellowish or reddish yellow. 



Length. 28 to 32 inches; wing 9*35 to 9-65 ; tail from vent 14 to 16; tarsus 

 2-85103; bill from gape 1-28 to 1-3. Females Length 18 to 20 inches; 

 wing 7-8 to 8-3 ; tail 6 to 7 ; tarsus 2'2 to 2-5 ; bill from gape 1*02 to 1*2. 



