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with white shafts, a white spot near the eiid, and a glossy brownish- 

 yellow spot at the 1ip, both resembling sealing-wax, and formed 

 by the w r ebs of the feathers being soldered together ; back, rump, 

 and lesser wing-coverts black, the feathers with \vhite shafts and 

 grey edges, the long feathers at the side of the rump and some of 

 the upper tail-coverts with yellowish wax-like spots along the shafts 

 and with ferruginous edges ; scapulars and median wing-coverts 

 black, with white shaft-stripes, which expand into long, lanceolate, 

 brownish-orange, wax-like spots, fringed at the end with chestnut ; 

 greater coverts black, with white shafts ; primaries dark brown, 

 with pale shafts and outer borders ; secondaries black, slightly 

 glossed ; upper and lower tail-coverts and tail black, the shorter 

 upper coverts glossed with purple-bronze, the longer with purple, 

 and the median rectrices and outer edges of the others with bluish 

 green ; lower parts blackish grey, the feathers with broad white 

 shaft-stripes and pale grey edges, passing into uniform brownish 

 grey on the lower abdomen, the flanks tinged with ferruginous 

 red. The neck-hackles are replaced by black feathers, and the 

 long rectrices by shorter plumes after the breeding-season, as in 

 G. ferrugineus. 



Female. Crown and neck speckled brown, with pale shafts and 

 borders to the feathers ; upper parts finely mottled with blackish 

 brown and buff, the upper back and wing-coverts with fine whitish 

 shaft-lines ; quills and tail-feathers dark brown, mottled on the 

 exposed portions of the secondaries and rectrices ; chin and throat 

 whitish ; breast and abdomen white, the feathers with black borders, 

 broad on the upper breast, gradually disappearing on the abdomen. 



Bill yellowish horny ; comb, face, and wattles red ; irides orange- 

 brown ; legs and feet horny yellowish (Jerdon). Irides in male 

 orange-red to wax-yellow (Davison}. 



Length of males 24 to 32 ; tail' 12 to 18 ; wing 9'5 ; tarsus 3 ; 

 bill from gape. 1*3. Length of female 18; tail 6; wing 8; 

 tarsus 2-4. 



Distribution. Throughout Southern and Western India in hilly 

 and jungly ground. This Jungle-fowl is found near the eastern 

 coast as far north as the Godavari, and in the Central Provinces 

 its limit is some distance east of Sironcha, Chanda, and Seoni. 

 It is found throughout the Nerbudda valley west of Jubbul- 

 pore, and in parts of Central India and Eajputana, as far as the 

 Aravalis and Mount Abu, but no farther to the northward or 

 westward. It is met with near Baroda, but has not been observed 

 in Kattywar. It is common throughout the Western Ghats and 

 8atpuras, and it is found, though riot abundantly, on the tops of 

 the Nilgiri and Puluey hills. 



Habits, $c. Except that the present is a more shy and wary bird, 

 a characteristic probably due to greater persecution, there is but 

 little difference between the habits of the Red and Grey Jungle- 

 fowl. The crow of G. sonnerati, however, is quite distinct. It is 

 difficult to convey an idea of the sound ; Davison represents it as 

 resembling *' Icuck-lcaya-kya-lcuck" followed by a low double- 



