Genus GALLTJS. 
Bill rather short, high at the base, the tip much curved and vaulted, and overlapping the 
under mandible ; base of the upper mandible covered with a cere, in which the nostrils are 
pierced. Wings short, rounded, ample ; the secondaries equal to the primaries ; the 1st quill 
much shorter than the longest, which is the 5th. Tail of 14 feathers, divaricate ; central feathers 
much elongated and drooping, curved outwards at the tips. Tarsus stout, covered in front with 
pentagonal scales and with a stout spur on its inner side ; outer toe longer than the inner. 
Head furnished with a comb or crest of skin. Face nude. Throat wattled. Neck-feathers 
hackled. 
GALLTJS LAFAYETTII. 
(THE CEYLON JUNGLE-EOWL.) 
(Peculiar to Ceylon.) 
Gallus lafayettii, Lesson, Trait.e, p. 491 (1831); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 131 (1852); 
Emerson Tennent, Nat. Hist. Ceylon, p. 259 (1868) ; Elliot, Monog. Phasianidse, 
ii. pi. 33 (1873) ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, iii. p. 530 (1875). 
Gallus stanleyi, J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. iii. pi. 43 (1833) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p.243 (1849); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 62; Sclater, P. Z. S. 
1863, p. 122 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 540 (1864); Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 307 ; Gray, 
Hand-1. B. ii. p. 261 (1870) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 468 ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 400. 
Gallus lineatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1847, xvi. p. 387. 
Lafayette's Jungle-fowl, Elliot; Jungle-fowl of Europeans. Wild Ho'en, Dutch ; Galienha 
di Matoe, Portuguese in Ceylon (Layard) ; Kdda-koli, Ceylonese Tamils. 
WeU-Jcukula (male), Weli-kikili (female), Sinhalese. 
c J ad. supra aurantiaco-castaueus, plumis medialiter lanceolatim purpureis : uropygii plumis late medialiter purpureis, 
dorsi colore anguste marginatis : supracaudalibus caudaque chalybeo-nigris et purpureo nitentibus : tectricibus 
alarum stramineis, medialiter castaneis et ad apicem lanceolatim dorsi colore notatis, majoribus et remigibus 
chalybeo-nigris : nucha cum eollo postico et colli lateribus stramineis, plumis medialiter longitudinaliter nigro 
lineatis : facie, guM uud& et carunculis pendentibus lividc rubris : gutture imo et jugulo purpureo nigris : corpore 
reliquo subtus aui’antiaco-castaneo, plumis longitudinaliter brunneo lineatis : abdomine, tibiis, crisso et subcau- 
dalibus purpureo-nigris. 
Adult male. Length of examples with fine tails (which vary in length) 2(H) to 28'0 inches ; wing 9-2 to 9-5 ; tail 
13‘0 to 15-0 ; tarsus 3’2 to 3'4 ; middle toe T7 to 1 ‘8, claw (straight) 0’5 to 06 ; bill to gape 1*2. 
Length of comb from forehead to extremity 3-2 to 3 '3 inches ; spur 07 to l - 2. 
Iris light golden yellow ; face, throat, and wattles livid or purplish red ; comb bright red, with a large interior yellow 
patch, brightest in front, and blending into the surrounding colour ; bill brownish red, the lower mandible aud 
tip of the upper pale ; legs and feet wax-yellow, washed anteriorly with brownish, more especially on the toes. 
Hackles and margins of the lesser wing-coverts pale shining golden yellow, changing into the glistening yellowish red 
of the back, median wing-coverts, chest, breast, and the lanceolate portion of the rump-feathers, and into the 
duller hue of the head and nape ; the feathers with mesial stripes of deep brown on the hind neck and sides and 
of maroon on the remaining parts, those on the lesser wing-coverts spreading out at the base of the feathers, and 
more or less edged with dark brown ; short feathers of the rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, greater wing-coverts, 
and outer webs of secondaries metallic greenish black, illumined on the rump with fine amethystine, and elsewhere 
with steel-blue, reflections ; primaries dark brown ; upper portion of the fore neck metallic purple-black ; belly and 
