54 GAME BIRDS OF INDIA. 



being considered a hybrid between furcatus and bankiva. Gray 

 has lately figured a fine Cock from Batavia, G. Temminckii. 



Lastly we come to what may be considered a dwarfed or degraded 

 race of Jungle-fowl, peculiar to the Continent of India and Ceylon, 

 the so called Spur-fowl of sportsmen in the South, the double- 

 spurred Partridge of some. These birds, which are only of the 

 size of Partridges, have no comb nor wattles, but they have nude 

 orbits, quite the port of Jungle-fowl, and the sexes differ nearly 

 as much, in which point they do not agree with the Partridge 

 group. They moreover, frequent woods and dense cover, never 

 coming into the open. 



Gen. Galloperdix, Blyth. 



Char. — Bill somewhat lengthened ; orbits nude ; tail moderately 

 long, broad, of 14 feathers, held erect and folded as in fowls ; 

 tarsus of the male with two or more spurs ; females also with one 

 or more spurs. Of small size. Sexes differ much in colour. 



Only three species are known at present. 



16. Galloperdix spadiceus, Gmelin. 



Tetrao, apud Gmklin — Blyth, Cat. 1458— Hardwickk, III. 

 Ind. Zool. 1 pi. 42 f. 2— Gould, Birds of Asia, pt. VI., pi. 3— 

 Sykes, Cat. 160 — Jerdon, Cat. 274 — Polyplectron northiae, Gray, 

 Hardwicke, 111. I. Z. I. pi. 43, f. 1 (the female)— Chota jangli 

 mitrg/i, H. — Yerra kodi, and Jitta kodi s Tel. — Saravi koli, Tarn. 

 Kokatri, IVIahr. 



The Eed Spuu-fowl. 

 Descr. — Male, head and nape dusky olive-brown ; the forehead 

 and round the eye pale whity brown, somewhat buff in some 

 individuals ; chin, throat, and sides of neck pale brown ; the rest 

 of the body both above and below, rich- brown-chesnut or bay; 

 each feather pale edged ; primaries brown ; the secondaries and 

 tertiaries more or less minutely mottled ; tail with the central 

 feathers chesnut, the others dark-brown, more or less mottled, this 

 disappearing with age ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts, olivaceous. 



