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304 GALLING. 



? . Length, 16'5 to 18'25 ; expanse, 23 to 25 ; wing, 71 to 7'5 ; 

 tail, 5-5 to 6'5; tarsus, 2 '3 to 2'55 ; bill from gape, 1'9 to T02 ; 

 weight, 1 T V Ibs. to 1-HJ Ibs. 



Bill slaty-brown ; irides orange-red ; face, comb, and wattles 

 red ; legs slaty-black. 



Male, rich golden hackles on the head, neck, throat and breast, 

 paler on the sides of the neck and posteriorly ; ear-coverts white ; 

 back purplish-brown in the middle, rich orange-Thrown on the 

 sides ; upper tail-coverts lengthened, also bright orange ; wings 

 with the lesser and greater-coverts black, glossed with green ; 

 median-coverts rich dull maroon ; primaries dusky, with pale 

 edges; secondaries chestnut externally, dusky within ;tertiaries 

 glossy black ; tail with the central feathers rich glossy green-black, 

 the gloss diminishing on the lateral feathers ; beneath from the 

 breast unglossed black ; thigh-coverts the same. 



The Jungle Hen has the general color yellowish-brown, 

 minutely mottled with dark brown ; and some of the feathers, 

 especially of the upper back and wing-coverts, having conspi- 

 cuously pale shafts ; the head dusky above, passing into short 

 hackles of dark brown, edged with bright yellow on the neck 

 and sides of the breast ; quills and tail dark brown ; the central 

 rectrices edged with mottled-brown ; ear-coverts yellowish ; a line 

 down the throat deep bright red-brown, ending in a point below 

 and passing up in a line behind the ears to join a small super- 

 cilium of the same hue ; breast pale rufous-brown, with central 

 pale streaks, lighter on the middle of the belly and becoming 

 dull brown on the flanks, vent, thigh-coverts, and under tail- 

 coverts. 



I have been assured by a well known sportsman that the Red 

 Jungle Fowl occurs in Central India, but it must be very rare as 

 no one else seems ever to have met with it. 



Gallus sonnerati, Tern. 



813. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 539 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 5 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 IX, p. 421 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 231 ; Swinhoe 

 and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 131. 



THE GREY JUNGLE FOWL. 

 Jangli Murghi, Hin. 



#. Length, 28 to 32 ; expanse, 27 to 31 ; wing, 9'35 to 9'65 ; 

 tail, 14 to 16 ; tarsus, 2'85 to 3; bill from gape, 1'3; weight, 

 1-f g to 2J Ibs. 



? . Length, 18 to 20 ; expanse, 26 to 27 ; wing, 7'8 to 8'3 ; 

 tail, 6 to 7 ; tarsus, 2'2 to 2'5 ; bill from gape, 1'2 ; weight, 1 T ^ 

 to If Ibs. 



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

 orange-brown ; legs and feet horny -yellowish. 



Whole head and neck, with the hackles, blackish-grey, with 



