24 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
8000 fect.); Robinson Jour. Fed. Malay States Museum I, 1906, pp. 
215, 129 Malay Peninsula south of Kra; Robinson, ibid. III, 190829: 
59, Pahang River; van Oort, Notes Leyden Museum XXXII, 1910, Ds 
110 (Western Java). 
Gallus pseudhermaphroditicus Finn., Jour. as. Soc. Bengal. N. 
S. LXXI, 1902, p. 85, (a henfeathered cock). 
Gallus bankiva bankiva Baker, Jour. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 
XXV-1917, p. 18 (habits). | 
— —— ferrugineus Baker, ibid., p. 3 (habits). 
Gallus ferrugineus ferrugineus Robinson and Kloss. Rec. Indian 
Mus. XIX p. 14. 

murghi, ibid., p. 15. 
TE Dan KUCH AVON MS D AUS; 
The latter titles refer to efforts to define smaller groups within the 
Linneon Gallus gallus; we shall have occasion: to speak of them, when 
„we describe MR. HOUWINK’S initial bankiva-material and the progeny 
obtained from it. 
As to the occurence of Gallus gallus in the wild state BEEBE insists 
on its continuous crossing with domestic poultry, which apparently is 
much more common in British India than in certain regions at least 
of Java. This seems to be due to the fact that the favorite haunts of the 
British India birds are bamboo-jungles in the belt of which many native 
villages occur and its almost total absence from virgin forests without 
bamboo. Also the British Indian birds seem to be much more grain- 
eaters than the Javanese ones with which the senior author is acquain- 
ted. It is true that his knowledge is limited to the rainforest on the Ma- 
labar-mountain in the Preanger on Java, but as he has been able to 
observe the Jungle-fowl there for a couple of years his recollections 
may be worth noting down. 
The woods of the Malabar are genuine rain-forests, with giant trees, 
among which Castaneopsis-species are very frequent, while the Conife- 
rae are represented by giant Podocarpi. There is a dense underwood 
and a considerable variety of Ficus-trees. Of mammals the most con- 
spicuousare the Banteng (Bos sundaicus), the Muntjac (Cervus muntjac), 
black and spotted panthers, while, at great intervals, a rhinoceros 
which has strayed from the south, visits them. The bungalow of the 
senior author was situated at Lemah Goenting, at the extreme end of 
the Governement Cinchona plantations, within a few minutes walk of 
