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Birds of Celebes: Phasianidae. 
Salanga, Ja'va, Borneo, the Philipjsines probably, and Australia; and in tropical 
regions birds are generally resident] in countries where they breed, though 
they may shift their quarters for food. With such species local ditferences are 
not unlikely to occur. E. chinensis alters, as Mr. Ogilvie-Grant shows, con- 
siderably with age, and indiyidual variation must also be allowed for. 
E. chinensis is most nearly allied to E. lepida Hartl. of the New Britain 
group, which has the whole of the breast bluish slate, and only the abdomen 
chestnut. Ihe single other species of the genus Eosccilfactovia^ E. adansoni (Verr.), 
is found in Africa from about the equator southwards ; this differs more widely. 
Very few naturalists have met with this species in Celebes, perhaps on 
account of its preferring the stretches of open ground of the country, instead 
of forest. Rosenberg (j 1) describes it as resorting to districts covered with 
high grass-growths, for instance, near Limbotto and Bone. “Like our Quail the 
little creature rises before the feet of the sportsman, flies a few yards straight 
as a line over the gTOund, falls again, and runs away further”. Bernstein 
(e 4) writes of it in Java: “Ihis pretty little bird specially frequents the thick, 
wide-spread Alang-Alang wastes in which it can easily hide between the high 
stalks, it also occurs not rarely on pastui'e and fields near the villages. It flies 
unwillingly, and tries to escape danger rather by running, or by squatting on 
the ground. Owing to its quiet and concealed kind of life it is difficult to ob- 
serve its habits and economy. Its food consists of insects, worms, and various 
seeds. I myself have kept several individuals alive for a long time with small 
gTasshoppers and other insects. They remained, however, always shy, and often 
injured themselves by wildly fluttering about. Their call-note is a soft “dudiidii” 
or “duhdudi”, at first loud and gradually getting weaker. The nest I have several 
times found” (cf. supra). Its habits in Borneo are remarked upon by Mottley 
(e 5 — in whose care some twenty caged specimens became very tame), in 
Ceylon by Legge (e 8), in India by Jerdon (2, VI), in Pegu and Tenasserim 
by Oates and Davison, and elsewhere by other authors. 
GENUS GALLUS Temm. (from L. and Briss.). 
The Jungle Fowl may be easily recognised by its comb and wattles, by the 
long hackle-feathers of the neck and rump (in the male), by the rectrices bilater- 
ally pressed together into a gable-shape, and in the male greatly lengthened, 
by the spur on the tarsus of the male. Four species are known, the cocks of 
three of which crow differently, as no doubt the fourth does also. 
The genus ranges from India to Lombok, perhaps further, and Gallns 
ferrugineus is found in a wild state in many other localities, in some of which it 
has certainly, in others most likely, been introduced by man. 
