GALLUS LAFAYETTII. 
737 
thighs dull black, edged narrowly with rufous ; lower part of the sides of the breast and under tail-eoverts green- 
black ; ear-coverts whitish, tipped with black. 
Female. Length about 13'75 inches ; wing 6-8 to 7'0 ; tail 3 - 5 ; tarsus 2-3 to 2-5 ; middle toe and claw 2-0 to 2-1 ; 
bill to gape l'l. 
Iris yellowish olive ; bill, upper mandible dark brown, lower yellowish ; tarsi and feet brownish in front, yellowish 
posteriorly. 
Above fulvous-brown, the back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts with buff mesial lines, and the feathers closely vermi- 
culated with black ; the hind neck and sides dusky rufous, with the centres of the feathers blackish ; primaries 
brownish, mottled and indented on their outer webs with rufous ; secondaries and greater wing-coverts brownish 
black, handsomely barred with mottled bands of buff, the black on the terminal portions of the feathers mixed 
with rufous ; tail rufous, mottled with black ; chin and gorge whitish ; fore neck and sides of chest brown, the 
former tinged with rufous, all the feathers with pointed white centres surrounded by a black edge ; on the upper 
part and sides of breast the white increases, having a broad black margin ; centre of the breast and belly white, 
marked with blackish brown, except on the abdomen ; under tail-coverts as the tail. Specimens from the hills, in 
addition to being larger than low-country birds, are paler above. 
Young. The male chick, when about the size of a Quail-Partridge and able to fly well, has the iris } r ellowish olive ; bill, 
upper mandible brown, its tip and all the lower mandible yellowish ; legs and feet dusky yellow, shaded with 
brownish ; comb developed as a flap about T \y inch high at the base of the upper mandible ; spurs in the form of 
very small tubercles. 
Forehead, sides of head, and nape ochraceous brown, a dark rufous, black-bordered, spear-shaped mark running up 
the nape to a point on the crown ; from behind the eye a black stripe running dowm and back to the nape ; 
interscapular region, scapulars, and wing-coverts rusty bro wn, mottled with black, the scapulars and coverts with 
marked white terminal spots and black bars, and the upper back with fulvous mesial lines ; primaries brown, with 
fulvous edges ; secondaries and tertials handsomely barred near the edges with buff and black alternately ; least 
wing-coverts rufous ; back blackish, edged with rufous and with two broad buff stripes on each side of the centre ; 
chin, throat, centre of breast, and belly white ; chest, sides of breast, and flanks light fulvous-brown, with wavy 
blackish cross rays and whitish mesial lines and tips ; in the centre of the fore neck a pale rufous spot. This 
plumage resembles in general character that of the adult female. 
Young male (January). In the bird of the year the iris is light yellowish, the bill much the same as in the chick ; the 
comb and spurs but very little more developed, and the wattles are absent. A considerable change takes place 
in the plumage, however. The head and upper part of hind neck are yellowish rufous, the feathers with darker 
centres, deepening into chestnut-red on the interscapular region, sides of neck, and breast ; on the lower part of 
the hind neck the feathers are somewhat elongated, with glossy blackish centres, and there are signs of the dark 
fore-neck patch ; the metallic purple of the adult rump is present in small patches on the feathers ; the ground- 
colour and the tail, which is short, are ferruginous, mottled with blackish, with a greenish-black wash on some of 
the tail-feathers ; w ings blackish brown, the secondaries and their coverts handsomely mottled with rufous and 
buff ; chin and gorge whitish, the feathers very short ; lower parts nigrescent, tipped with rufous. 
Another specimen, not quite so old perhaps, is dark brown on the head ; back ferruginous, mottled with black ; the 
hind neck with the centre of the feathers blackish brown and their margins yellow ; wing-coverts like the back : 
secondaries crossed with black-and-yellow mottled bars on the outer webs ; primaries dark brown, indented out- 
wardly with yellow ; tail ferruginous, with black on the inner webs of the feathers ; throat white ; chest chestnut, 
feathers of the breast brown and ferruginous. 
The adult plumage is apparently donued during the second year, and then the long tail is assumed, but this probably 
does not attain its full length until another year. 
Obs. G. ferrugineus, the Bed Jungle-fowl, and probably the origin of the Domestic Fowl, is an inhabitant of Northern 
and Central India, the countries to the east of the Bay of Bengal, and the Malay islands of the Sumatra-to-Timor 
chain, and is allied to the Ceylonese bird. It differs notably in having the breast and under surface dull greenish 
black ; the hackles of the neck are deep red, the lower or longer ones which underlie the upper back are yellow 7 
with a dark mesial stripe ; median wing-coverts deep maroon-red, the lesser and greater series dark green ; quills 
cinnamon-red, brown internally. The wing of an Indian example in the national collection measures 8’0 inches. 
The female has the back and wings mottled brown and tawny, many of the feathers with clear yellow shaft-stripes ; 
the hackles are black, with tawny yellow edges ; throat and sides of the neck maroon-red ; the under surface 
cinnamon-brown, the feathers with a pale central streak and a paler shaft ; tail blackish brown, the feathers 
mottled with ferruginous. A Javan example measures in the wdng 8-0 inches. 
