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the mantle this stripe is strongly glossed with green. Remainder of the upper plumage, 
beginning rather abruptly behind the mantle feathers, pale reddish or buffy brown, 
finely mottled and vermiculated with black, with a conspicuous, narrow, yellowish-white 
line down the shaft. Flight feathers brownish-black, the primaries very narrowly edged 
with buff. The visible portion of the secondaries (four-fifths of the outer web) vermi- 
culated with pale reddish-brown. ‘Tertiaries evenly vermiculated, with distinct metallic 
green sheen on the darker portions. Tail-feathers with rufous brown mottling, confined 
to the edges of the feathers, and considerable green gloss. Comb sometimes a minute 
fleshy knob; again a low, inconspicuous notched ridge. Wattles absent, and ear-lappets 
greatly reduced. Face and upper neck chestnut. Lower neck and breast light red, 
shading posteriorly, and on the sides, into pale buffy-brown, each feather with a pale 
shaft. The feathers have more or less dark mottling, especially those of the sides, 
where it takes the form of irregular, concentric bands. The breast and mid-belly is 
usually monochrome. Under tail-coverts blackish-brown, with slight brownish 
mottling. 
The bill of the hen is usually paler than that of the cock ; but otherwise the colours 
of the horny and fleshy parts are the same in both sexes. 
Weight, 1 lb. 2 ozs. to 1 lb. 10 ozs. 
Length, 420 to 460 mm.; culmen from nostril, 15; wing, 185; tail, 153; 
tarsus, 60; middle toe and claw, 50. Spurs absent. 
CuIcK IN Down —Head fawn-coloured or yellowish buff; a wide maroon or 
chocolate coronal patch, pointed in front and narrowly bordered with black. A dark 
brown line extends through the eye, and back over the ear-coverts. The dark crown is 
continued down the neck and over the back, but is split on the sides of the lower back 
and rump by two wide creamy-buff lines, these also outlined in black. Under-parts 
creamy white, the breast sometimes deep buffy. Bill, yellow; legs and feet, yellowish 
green. 
HYBRIDS 
Gallus pseudhermaphroditus of Blyth was based upon an abnormal domestic 
specimen, said to bea male. The bird had the comb, wattles, spurs and tail of a cock, 
with a hen-coloured body plumage. 
“Gallus stramineicollis, type Sharpe. Sulu Islands.” ‘Thus is labelled the type 
in the British Museum. It is a very large hybrid or domestic variety, with a small 
rose comb; bare face, chin, throat and lower neck; hackles, mantle, neck, lower back 
and rump, straw colour with narrow green shaft-stripe. Feet and legs very thick and 
heavy. The spurs are abortive. Culmen from comb, 18 mm.; wing, 230; tail, 410; 
tarsus, 96; middle toe and claw, 70. 
SYNONYMY 
Phasianus gallus Linn. S. N., XII. 1766, p. 270; Raffl. Trans, Linn. Soc., XIII. 1822, p. 319 [Sumatra]. 
‘Grande Caille de la Chine Sonn. Voy. Ind. Orient., II. 1782, p. 171. 
Hlackled Partridge Latham, Gen. Syn., II. 1783, p. 766, pl. 66; id. Gen. Hist., VIII. 1823, p. 307, pl. 129. 
Letrao ferrugineus Gmelin, S. N., I. 1788, pt. I1., p. 761. 
