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Gallus sonnerati, Temminch 



VemaCUlar ITameS.— [Komri, Mt. Abu;^ng\\ Murghi (Hindustani), many parts 

 of Central India, &=c; Pardah Komri (Gondhi), Chdnda District ; Ran-kobada 

 (male), Ran-kobadi (female), (Mahrati) Sahyadri Range; Kombadi, Deccan ; 

 Adavikode, (Telegu) j Katu-koli ( Tamil) ; Koli, Kad-koli (Canarese), Mysore.] 



HIS species is the Jungle-Fowl of Southern India ; but, 

 though common in the Assamboo Hills to the southern- 

 most extremity of the Peninsula, does not extend to 

 Ceylon, where it is replaced by a distinct species. 



From the sea to its junction with the Indravati* 

 the valley of the Godavari indicates approximately 

 its north-eastern limits. Thence a line drawn through 

 Pachmarhi to the Nerbudda completes roughly its north-eastern 

 boundary. Westwards the Nerbudda defines, I believe, its 

 northern limits to within from 120 to 150 miles of the sea, 

 where, crossing this river into the westernmost portions of the 

 Vindyas, it runs up through Rewa Kantha and Mahi Kantha to 

 Abu, and thence along the Arvalis to beyond the well-known 

 Dasuri Pass, stragglers having even been obtained half way 

 between this and Beawur. 



Like their northern congener they are eminently birds of 

 jungly and hilly or broken ground, and are not to be found 

 at any distance from these in level, thoroughly cultivated 

 tracts ; but throughout all the hilly tracts within the limits 

 indicated, the entire range of the Western Ghats,f the Sat- 

 puras, and all their southern ramifications, the Nilgiris, 



* Mr. R. Thompson says: "The Grey Jungle-Fowl is abundant in the jungles 

 of Chanda, and I found it common in the valley of the Indravati, at least 50 miles 

 up from its junction with the Godavari." 



t Mr. G. Vidal writes : — 



" Plentiful throughout the Sahyadri Range, and especially in the tract at the 

 summit known as the ' Konkan Ghat Mahta.' Scarcer on the eastern and western 

 slopes. 



" Throughout the Ratnagiri district, whose eastern boundary is the watershed 

 of the Ghats, Jungle-Fowl are found sparingly in the ravines of the western slopes. 

 A few stragglers are sometimes seen or heard in a few of the larger and more 

 elevated hills of this district, between the main range and the coast, where these 

 hills, though detached from the Ghats by steep valleys, are connected by continuous 

 belts of forest." 



Mr. Davidson, C S., tells us that— 



"The Grey Jungle-Fowl is found all through the Ghats in the Poona and 

 Satara districts, but not straying east into the plain Deccan districts. It is fairly 



