14 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA AND ASIA. 



distinguished from hens by having the little patch 

 of feathers between the bill and the eye glossy 

 green, this patch in the hen being rusty brown. 



The legs and bill are blackish horn-colour, and 

 the hen has spurs as well as the cock. 



This species extends from Chittagong to Java, 

 being the ordinary peafowl of Burma, but it is 

 local and not abundant in most places, though it 

 is so in some parts of Upper Burma. It has a 

 quite different note from the ordinary peacock, 

 this being a Subdued scream in several syllables 

 ' ' ayau-katt-kati-kau-kau ' ' ; this is not at aU 

 annoying and would make the present bird a formid- 

 able rival to the other as a fancy bird were it not 

 more delicate, and more spiteful in the case of the 

 male. Little is known about its breeding. In 

 captivity it has crossed with the common peafowl, 

 the hybrid, judging from a young male in the 

 British Museum, exhibiting a mingling of the colours 

 of the parents, but in its crest following the com- 

 mon species exclusively. 



The jungle-fowls are birds of a ^'ery different 

 type,- and also stand much alone, although they 

 have an obvious affinity to the ruffed pheasants, 

 to be mentioned later. Their characteristic points 

 are the comb, large in the cocks and small in the 

 hens, and the vertically folded tail, the undersides 

 of the feathers facing each other. These char- 

 acteristics apply to both sexes; the cocks alone, 

 however, have the two central tail-feathers long 

 and curved, and are furnished with long and sharp 

 spurs, besides differing altogether from the hens 

 in colour. Jungle fowls, except that they carry 

 their tails low, much resemble tame fowls of rather 



