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Genus GALLUS. 

 GaUus=a cock. 



Tail of fourteen to sixteen feathers, laterally compressed and curved down- 

 wards, mid pair elongated. — Males : High fleshy comb with margins serrated or 

 entire. Sides of face, chin, and throat naked, with two pairs of wattles, or with 

 single wattle. Long sharp spur on each tarsus. In females the comb is rudimentary j 

 wattles absent. Tail uniform. No spurs. Forest birds; found singly, or in pairs, 

 or in small parties. Found throughout the greater part of the Oriental region. 



31. Gallus ferrugineus. The Eed Jungle-Fowl. 



Ferrugineus=o{ the colour of iron-dust, dusky. 



Jungli-moorghi, Ban-moorghi, Upper India; Bunkokra, Sundarbans ; Natsu-pia 

 (Bhutla); Pazoktchi, Sikkim; Gera-gogor, Oondwara; Lall, Chanda; Taugyet, Burma; 

 AySLmootan, Malay ; Kura, Chittagong. 



3- 25" to 28", tail from vent 11" to 14"; If to 2^ lbs. $ 16" to 18", tail from 

 vent 5J" to 6J"; \\ to If lbs. Tail of fourteen feathers. Bill and legs slaty 

 brown. — Male: Flesh comb with serrated margin and wattles red. Gold hackles 

 on head, neck, and breast, with black shaft streaks. Ear-coverts white. Back 

 purple. Sides and upper tail-coverts orange. Inner quills of wing margined 

 chestnut on outer web. Tail and wing-coverts black, glossed green. Below black. 

 — Female: Yellow, minutely mottled dark brown, with white shaft streaks. 

 Eed throat line passing up behind ear. No comb or wattles. Tail dark brown, 

 mottled at edges with buff. Below rufous, with pale shafts. In June hackles and 

 long tail-feathers are moulted, and replaced by short black feathers, to be renewed 

 again in the second moult in September. The natural range is throughout the 

 Himalayas, from Assam to Kashmir, Malay, Sumatra, Siam, and Cochin China. 

 Forsyth shows that their limit coincides with that of the ski tree. Five or six 

 eggs (1-78 X 1-36), yellowish brown (see illustration of foot, p. 29). (J. 812. 

 B. 1328. 0. 78. O.G. ii. 48. H. & M. i. 217.) 



32. Gallus sonnerati. The Grey or Madras Jungle-Fowl. 



Komri, Abu; Jungli-murghi, India; Pardah, Komri, Chandah; Kombadi, Deccan : 

 Katu-Koli (Tamil) ; KoU, Mysore ; Adavi-kode (Telugu). 



^ 28" to 32", tail from vent 14" to 16"; 1| to 2J lbs. 2 18" to 20", tail from 

 vent 6" to 7"; 1^ to If lbs. Legs yellowish. Bill yellowish. Tail fourteen 

 feathers. — Male: Comb with serrated margin and wattles crimson. Grey hackles, 

 with yellow spots; each feather blackish, with shaft white and two spots, the 

 terminal one like wax. Ear-coverts rufous. Plumage black and grey, with 

 white shafts. Wing-quills brown or black. Wing-coverts with oblong wood- 

 brown spots. — Female: Above mottled brown. Breast white, fringed and 

 marked with black, and without thick black cross-bars. Below black-brown, 

 broadly centred pure white. Whole head feathered, except a space round the 

 eye. No comb or wattles. Found in S. and W. India. Seven to thirteen eggs 

 (1-84 X 1-38), buff. (J. 813. B. 1330. 0. 79. O.G. ii. 55. H. & M. i. 232.) 



33. Gallus lafayetti. The Ceylon Jungle-Fowl. 



Wali-kukula, Ceylon; Kada-koli (Tamil). 



3 19" to 30", tail from vent 8" to 14"; 2| to 2^ lbs. 2 15" to 17", tail from 

 vent 5" to 6"; 1|. to If lbs. Tail fourteen feathers. Legs pale yellow. Bill 

 brown. — Male: Comb with serrated margin red; wattles purplish red with yellow 



