The jungle fowl is found throughout the Philippines and the males are frequently domesticated by the natives and used for their national pastime of cock fighting. In this country at least the wild chickens afford the gunner no sport whatever as they habitually remain within thick tangles of brush where wing-shots are impossible, or, if by chance caught in the open, they scurry to the nearest thicket. There is no great difficulty, however, in securing specimens, if one cares to kill them sitting. Their flesh is usually tender and more savory than that of the domestic birds. The male has a high falsetto voice resembling very much that of a young domestic cock. Delighting in small growth mixed with a tangle of bamboo and rattan, especially if near cultivated fields, this species generally avoids true forest unless there be near-by clearings. The natives are very successful in taking the cocks alive by employing a live decoy which they picket within a small corral of snares. Genus POLYPLECTRON Temminck, 1807. Bill similar to that of Gallus; feathers of crown forming a long crest; wings short and rounded; rectrices twenty-four in number and greatly graduated; upper tail-coverts lengthened; tarsi covered with transverse plates and each tarsus armed with two or three sharp spurs; tarsus longer than middle toe with claw. 4. POLYPLECTRON NAPOLEONIS Lesson. PALAWAN PEACOCK PHEASANT. Polyplectron napoleonis Lesson, Traité d'Orn. (1831), 487, 650; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 361; Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 43; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 8. Polyplectron nehrkornæ Blasius, Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien (1891), 1; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 22, 360. Polyplectrum napoleonis Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 39. Pavo real, Spanish name. Palawan (Everett, Whitehead, Platen, Bourns & Worcester, White).