16 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIM. STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
Secondaries dullblack, the majority of them hasa horsebrown outer 
web. Inside of the wings darkgrey with black coverts. Legs dark lead 
color, with sharp spurs. 
The stomach contained small pebbles, hard seeds of fruits and rests 
of insects. 
Distance between the tip of the bill and the end of the legs 
stretched backwards 220% 37% 2 So... CR eran ed 
Idem until the end of the body, without tail. . . . . . 300 R 
THI seit on RR PARLONS COR Se B 
length of wing Oise ten Sn ayes es ENNE 
Pe intr NG ee EN Tee Sone A 
culmeh rostrir Ent en os atc, MAO TON Ne Re 2 
height athe basis seat Me RE à 
5. Ofcom bron ‘crowns Eee RENE js 
width oBbeaks nk oet ie Gelede a ANT 4 
TATU. pa opts, OP kc wh wines cabin ES eee ERP RE # 
middletoeand claw or ae ie 2, CORRE RENE " 
hindtoe an Ae RSR AT RTE PR = a 
length of spur oval. Aen ate a Mee SE x 
While this animal had a length of 510 mm., and spurs of 19 mm., 
BEEBE describes the British-Indian birds as having a length from 630 
to 700 mm. and having spurs averaging 33 mm. Corresponding to this 
greater size the British Indian birds also have larger wings 235 mm., 
against the 210 mm. of the Javanese ones, while the other measures gi- 
ven are pretty well the same for both kind of birds to wit: 
British Indian Javanese 
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middletoe and claw . . . . sie D 
This may be due to differences in age, to a different diet — the Bri- 
tish Indian birds eat, judging from BEEBE’s account much more grain 
than the Javanese ones — or may be a real difference. 
The only other description of a cock from the Malay Archipelago 
which we have been able to find is one by VORDERMAN again, this time 
of a bird from Celebes in his Celebesvogels Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Indië 
XLVIII p. 113. There he says: | 
„Ihe jungle fowl occurs on Celebes for instance in the mountans 
