32 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. . 
3, There is some indication that the hybrids may sometimes be fertile 
when mated back to the jungle parent (i. e. Junglecock and hybrid 
hen). | 
4. Jungle hens have never laid in captivity. 
The number of experiments is so small, that the only possible con- 
clusion is, that fertile hybrids can be obtained, but that this is far from 
easy, In one experiment only two chicks have been hatched from a hun- 
dred eggs laid in the course of a year, and these lived but twelve and 
eighteen days respectively. Our experiments with other crosses teach 
how much depends on the weather and on the care given to birds, in 
regard to their fertility, so that probably much better results can be 
obtained. 
The litterature of interest to our purpose is: 
MITCHEL. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1911, p. 522 (viability in captivi- 
ty). 
THomas. Spolia Zeylonica IV, 1907, p. 19 also in Rep. nat. Poultry 
Conf. Reading 1907 (hybridisation). 
THOMAS, ibid. VII 1911, p. 159 (notes on captivity). 
3. THE GREY JUNGLEFOWL 
(Plate II fig. 3) 
The Grey jungle fowl, Gallus sonnerati Temminck occurs in Western- 
Central and Southern India. 
It is generally distributed in Southern India, it is not a lover of flat, 
open, cultivated tracks. Hence within the limits of Southern India the- 
re are large areas from which the bird is wholly absent. In jungle, or in 
hilly, broken country they are very widely distributed, with centres 
of abundance in the larger ranges, such as the Western Ghats, the Sat- 
puras, the Nilgiris, Puhneys, Shervaroys and Anamalais. 
They are very stationary birds, if met with in any particular spot 
they are certain, if not disturbed in the interim, to be found again in 
the same place, at about the same hour the next or any subsequent day. 
They range from see-level upward to four and five thousand feet, have 
even been seen at 7000. They also move towards places of abundant 
fruit and leave them again after the fruiting is over, especially towards 
fruiting bamboos and the Strobilanthes already mentioned in connec- 
tion with Gallus lafayetti, and may then be seen by hundreds. They are 
