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Galloperdix bicalcarata. 



The Ceylon Jungle-Fowl. 



Fevdix Ucalearatus, — Pennant, Ind. Zool., p. 40, pi. vii. (1769). 



Perdix zeylonensis,— Gm.e\. Syst. Nat. 1, pt. ii., p. 759 (1788) ; Bonnat., 

 Encycl. Meth. 1, p. 210, pi. 93, fig. 3. (1791). 



Perdix eeylonensis, — Lath. Ind. Orn. ii., p. 644 (1790) ; Temm., Pig. et. 

 Oall. iii., pp. 311, 718 (1815). 



Ceylon Partridge, Lath., Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii., p. 278 (1802). 



Francolinm ceylanensis, — Less., Traite d'Orn., p. 504 (1831). 



Galloperdix zeylonends, -Blyth., Cat. Mus. As. Soc, p. 241 (1849); Gould, 

 B. Asia vi. pi. 67 (1854) ; Hume, Nests & Eggs Ind. B. p. 535 (1873). 



Galloperdix bicalcarata, — Layard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiv., p. 105 

 <1854) ; Blyth, Ibis 1867, p. 308 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S., 1872, p. 469 ; Legge., 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 26; 1875, p. 400 ; id., Birds Ceylon iii., p. 741, pi. (1880); Hume, 

 Str. Feath. vii., pp. 430, 453 (1878) ; Hume & Marshall, Game-B. Ind. i, p. 

 261 pi. (1878) ; Gates, ed. Hume's Nests & Eggs Ind. B. iii., p. 426 (1890); 

 Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii., p. 264 (1893); id., Man. Came-B. 

 1, p. 210 (1895) ; Butler, Journ. Bomb. N. H. Soc. x. p. 31 (1896) ; Blanford, 

 Faun. Brit. Ind. iv., p. 109 (1898) ; Lewis, Ibis, 1898, p. 5ol ; Gates, Man. 

 Game-B. 1, p. 224 (1898) ; Wait, Spolia Zeylanica x, pt. 39, p. 371 (1917). 



VERNACULAR NAMES. Haban-or Saban-kukula {Cinyhalese). 



Description — Adult Male. — Crown, nape, hind neck, back, scapu- 

 lars and wing-coverts black with white central lines ; on the head 

 these are very narrow, but gradually broaden towards the back 

 until on the outer wing-coverts they become large pear-shaped 

 drops. The bases of the feathers of both back and wing-coverts are 

 pale brown or chestnut brown, verniiculated with blackish, and 

 these show through every^vhere ; on both the lower back and greater 

 wdng-coverts the feathers have broad chestnut edges verniiculated 

 with black and grade gradually into the chestnut rump and shorter 

 tail-coverts. The rump is sometimes immaculate except for a 

 terminal black spot or narrow bars of bufi' and black, at other times 

 there is a certain amount of black vermiculation ; the coverts are 

 invariably freely vermiculated with black and the longer tail- 

 coverts and tail are black, the central tail feathers sometimes, and 

 the outer feathers on the bases nearly always, vermiculated with 

 chestnut. 



Primaries brown ; secondaries brcs^^n, vermiculated with chestnut 

 on the outer webs, the innermost on both webs ; greater coverts 

 like the quills, but with white pear-shaped black-edged ocelli at 

 the tips. 



Sides of head white, the feathers with tiny edges of black ; chin 

 and throat pure white. Neck, breast, flanks and abdomen white, 

 each feather black-edged. On the flanks the black edges dominate 

 so that this part of the plumage is almost black ; the upper breast 

 is boldly black and white, and the centre of th? abdomen almost 



