76 PHA.SIANIDJE. 



Bankukar, Bengali, &c. ; Ganja tf , Uriya ; Tang-Ming, Lepcha ; Nay- 

 t*e-ja, Bhot. ; J3ir-aim,Kol. ; 6rcra yo^or J, JTuru $, Goud. ; Tau-kyet, 

 Burm. 



Coloration. Male. Crown and long hackles at back and sides 

 of neck and on lower throat golden brown to orange-red, pale- 

 fihafted, passing on the longer neck-hackles into straw-yellow, 

 generally with lanceoJate dark brown shaft-stripes ; upper back 

 with the smaller and greater secondary-coverts black, glossed green 

 or purple : scapulars and median coverts glossy chestnut-red ; 

 quills anel priinary-co verts blackish brown, with metallic gloss on 

 the tertiaries ; narrow outer edges of primaries pale, and broad 

 outer borders of secondaries and tertiaries dull cinnamon ; lower 

 back and rump very dark chestnut, shading into golden red or 

 orange on the ends of the long lanceolate feathers at the sides of 

 the rump ; long upper tail-coverts and tail black with green or 

 purple gloss ; lower parts from neck brownish black with little 

 or no gloss. 



After the breeding-season, about June, the long hackles and 

 tail-feathers are replaced by short black feathers, but are resumed 

 by a second moult in September. 



Female. Crown dull rufous, dark-shafted ; forehead and super- 

 cilia, continued as a band round the fore neck, bright chestnut; 

 back and sides of neck blackish, the feathers edged with dirty 

 yellow ; upper parts finely vermiculated black and brown, with 

 narrow yellowish-white shaft-lines ; quills and tail dark brown, 

 the outer webs of the secondaries and of the inner tail-feathers, 

 and both webs pf the median rectrices, finely mottled with pale 

 yellow ; lower plumage light rufous brown, with paler shaft-stripes ; 

 chin and throat light brownish grey. 



Chicks have a fawn-coloured head, with a deep rufous black- 

 edged triangular patch on the nape, pointed in front ; a black 

 stripe from behind each eye ; a chestnut back, bordered by creamy 

 and black stripes ; and grey wings, spotted with white. 



Bill dark brown, reddish towards the base in males, horny 

 brown in females ; irides light red to orange-red ; comb arid wattles 

 crimson ; sides of face paler red. There is in this species a second 

 pair of lappets, one beneath each ear, white or pinky white in 

 Indian, red like the comb in Burmese and Malayan birds. Legs 

 and feet plumbeous or slaty. 



Length of male about 26; tail 11 to 13; wing 9 ; tarsus 3; 

 bill from gape 1*25. Length of female about 17; tail 6; wing 

 7'25 ; tarsus 2-4 ; bill from gape 1. 



Distribution. Throughout the Lower Himalayas from Assam to 

 Kashmir, also throughout Bengal, Orissa, the Northern Circars, 

 Assam, and the countries to the southward, all Burma and the Malay 

 Peninsula, with Sumatra, Siam, and Cochin China. In the Penin- 

 sula of India, south of the Gangetic plain, the limit of this species, 

 as Capt. Porsyth showed, is approximately the same as that of the 

 sal-tree (Slwrea robusta), the Ked Jungle-fowl being found as far 

 west as Mandla, E-aipur, and Bastar, and south to the Godavari 



