GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 21 



The Grey or Madras Jungle-Fowl. 



Gallus sonnerati. Faun, Brit. India, Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 78. 



Native names : — Jungli murghi, Hind. ; 

 Komri, Mt. Abu ; Pnrdah Komri, Gondhi ; 

 Ran-kombadi, Mahr. ; Kathe kozhi or koli, 

 Tamil ; Adavi kode, Telugu ; koli, kad 

 koli, Canarese. 



This species also is much of the same size as the 

 red jungle-fowl, but in the cock the tail runs very 

 distinctly longer, and may measure as much as a 

 foot-and-a-half long. The tail-coverts, however, 

 are not long and curved as in the red jungle-fowl, 

 nor are there any hackles on the rump. 



The general colour of the cock is dark grey, the 

 feathers having white shafts and grey edges, the 

 wing-quills and tail are purple-black, and the neck 

 feathers and those of the upper back and flat of 

 the wing are tipped with sealing wax-like spots, 

 orange on the wing and golden yellow on the neck. 

 These curious tips are formed by a coalescence of 

 the barbs of the feathers into a horny plate, and 

 are found in a few other birds not at all allied to 

 "this family. There are rudimentary spots of 

 the kind on the rump feathers, and a tinge of red 

 on the flanks. 



The bill is horn-colour, comb, wattles, and face 

 red, the ' ' ear-lobe ' ' being indicated by a fold of 

 skin ; and the legs are usually said to be yellow, 

 but in fine cocks they are salmon-coloui . The 

 cock moults his hackles after breeding, like the red 

 jungle-fowl. 



