. A hand-book to the game-birds . ts. I do not know for certain whether the species is poly-gamous or monogamous, but from what I have observed Ishould think the latter; for although the male does not, Ibelieve, assist in incubation, yet when the chicks are hatched,he is often to be found in company with his mate and littleones. These birds are, I believe, quite untamable, even whenreared from the egg, and though in the latter case they maynot be so wild as those captured in maturity, they never takekindly to domestic life, and avail themselves of the firstopportunity for escaping. It is needl
. A hand-book to the game-birds . ts. I do not know for certain whether the species is poly-gamous or monogamous, but from what I have observed Ishould think the latter; for although the male does not, Ibelieve, assist in incubation, yet when the chicks are hatched,he is often to be found in company with his mate and littleones. These birds are, I believe, quite untamable, even whenreared from the egg, and though in the latter case they maynot be so wild as those captured in maturity, they never takekindly to domestic life, and avail themselves of the firstopportunity for escaping. It is needless to say that they can-not easily be induced to breed in captivity. I have known theexperiment tried time after time unsuccessfully. Nest.—Like that of the Red Jungle-Fowl. The period ofincubation appears to vary much in different locahties, eggshaving been found from October to June. Eggs.—Vary much in shape and colour, the extreme typesbeing a long oval with fine shell, and a broad oval conspicuously PLATE XXVI. f^ % W% ^. GREY JUNGLE FOWL. THE JUNGLE-FOWL. 59 pitted all over with pores. The colour varies from palecreamy-white to rich brownish-buff. Every intermediate formbetween these two types can be found. Average measure-ments, I84 by i38 inch. IV. THE JAVAN JUNGLE-FOWL. GALLUS VARIUS. Phasianus variiis^ Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc. x. pi. varius^ Elliot, Monogr. Phasian. ii. pi. 35 (1872) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Erit. Mus. xxii. p. 352 (1893).Gallus furcatiis, Temm. Pig. etGall. ii. p. 261 (1813); iii. p. 662 (1815); id., PI. Col. V. pi. iv. [No. 483] (1829); J. E. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 43, fig. 2 (1830-32).Galius javanicuSj Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 185 (1822). {P/ate XXVI.) Adult Male.—Easily recognised from the three species pre-viously mentioned by having the margiji of the comb entire^and a si7igle wattle down the middle of the throat. Back ofthe neck and upper mantle covered with short square-tippedfeathers^ purplish-blue, edged with
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