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the front part of the crown, just above 

 the bill. Only the feathers of the 

 mantle are hackled. The tail is short 

 but, as in the male, compressed and 

 divided into two halves which are folded 

 together. In dried specimens of females 

 of this group, the tail generally presents 

 a flat appearance. In the female of the 

 Grey Jungle-Fowl, the whole head is 

 feathered except a space round the eye. 

 In the females of the other two species a 

 great part of the throat and of the sides 

 of the head is naked, or scantily clothed 

 with plumelets and bristles. 



Jungle-Fowl go about in flocks and are 

 polygamous. 



The males undergo a partial moult at 

 the commencement of the rains, when 

 they lose the long hackles of the neck 

 and the longer tail-feathers. At the 

 usual autumn moult these are regained. 



