Genus GALLUS. 



Bill rather short, high at the base, the tip much curved and vaulted, and overlapping the 

 under mandible ; base of the upper mandible covered with a cere, in which the nostrils are 

 pierced. Wings short, rounded, ample ; the secondaries equal to the primaries ; the 1st quill 

 much shorter than the longest, which is the 5th. Tail of 14 feathers, divaricate ; central feathers 

 much elongated and drooping, curved outwards at the tips. Tarsus stout, covered in front with 

 pentagonal scales and with a stout spur on its inner side ; outer toe longer than the inner. 



Head furnished with a comb or crest of skin. Face nude. Throat wattled. Neck-feathers 

 hackled. 



GALLUS LAFAYETTII. 



(THE CEYLON JUNGLE-FOWL.) 



(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 



Gallus lafayettii, Lesson, Traite, p. 491 (1831); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 131 (1852); 



Emerson Tennent, Nat. Hist. Ceylon, p. 259 (1868); Elliot, Monog. Phasianidae, 



ii. pi. 33 (1873) ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 530 (1875). 

 Gallus stanleyi, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. iii. pi. 43 (1833) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 



p. 243 (1849); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 62; Sclater, P. Z. S. 



1863, p. 122; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 540 (1864); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 307; Gray, 



Hand-1. B. ii. p. 261 (1870) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 468 ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 400. 

 Gallus lineatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, xvi. p. 387. 

 Lafayette s Jungle-fowl, Elliot ; Jungle-fowl of Europeans. Wild Jloen, Dutch ; Galienha 



di Matoe, Portuguese in Ceylon (Layard) ; Kada-koli, Ceylonese Tamils. 

 Weli-kukula (male), Weli-kikili (female), Sinhalese. 



3 ail. supra aurantiaco-castaneus, plumis inedialiter lauceolatim purpureis : uropygii plumis late medialiter purpureis, 

 dorsi colore angustc marginatis : supraeaudalibus caudaque chalybeo-nigris et purpureo nitentibus : teetricibus 

 alarum stramineis, medialiter castaneis et ad apicem lauceolatim dorsi colore notatis, majoribus et remigibus 

 chalybeo-nigris : nucha cum collo postico et colli lateribus stramineis, plumis medialiter longitudinaliter nigro 

 lineatis : facie, gula nuda et carunculis pendentibus livide rubris : gutture imo et jugulo purpureo nigris : corpore 

 reliquo subtus aurantiaco-castaneo, plumis longitudinaliter brunneo lineatis : abdoinine, tibiis, crisso et subcau- 

 dalibus purpureo-nigris. 



[•hilt male. Length of examples with fine tails (which vary in length) 26 - to 28 - inches ; wing 9-2 to 9-5 ; tail 

 L3-0 to 15-0 ; tarsus 3-2 to 3"4 : middle toe 1-7 to 1-8, claw (straight) 0-5 to 0-6 ; bill to gape 1-2. 



Length of comb from forehead to extremity 3 - 2 to 3-3 inches ; spur 0*7 to l - 2. 



Iris light golden yellow ; face, throat, and wattles livid or purplish red ; comb bright red, with a large interior yellow 

 patch, brightest in front, and blending into the surrounding colour ; bill brownish red, the lower mandible and 

 tip of the upper pale ; legs and feet wax-yellow, washed anteriorly with brownish, more especially on the toes. 



Hackles and margins of the lesser wing-coverts pale shining golden yellow, changing into the glistening yellowish red 

 of the back, median wing-coverts, chest, breast, and the lanceolate portion of the rump-feathers, and into the 

 duller hue of the head and nape ; the feathers with mesial stripes of deep brown on the hind neck and sides and 

 of maroon on the remaining parts, those on the lesser wing-coverts spreading out at the base of the feathers, and 

 more or less edged with dark brown ; short feathers of the rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, greater wing-coverts, 

 and outer webs of secondaries metallic greenish black, illumined on the rump with fine amethystine, and elsewhere 

 with steel-blue, reflections : primaries dark brown ; upper portion of the fore neck metallic purple-black ; belly and 



