Local names include Komri in Rajasthan, Geera kur or Parda komri in Gondi, Jangli Murghi in Hindi, Raan kombdi in Marathi, Kattu Kozhi in Tamil and Malayalam, Kaadu koli in Kannada and Tella adavi kodi in Telugu.

[3] The male has a black cape with ochre spots and the body plumage on a grey ground colour is finely patterned.

The red junglefowl is found more along the foothills of the Himalayas; a region of overlap occurs in the Aravalli range.

They feed on grains including bamboo seeds, berries, insects and termites, and are hunted for meat and for the long neck hackle feathers that are sought after for making fishing lures.

Green junglefowl–Gallus varius (Shaw, 1798) Red junglefowl–Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) Sri Lankan junglefowl–Gallus lafayettii (Lesson, 1831) Grey junglefowl–Gallus sonneratii (Temminck, 1813) Gray junglefowl have been bred domestically in England since 1862[13] and their feathers have been commercially supplied from domestic U.K. stocks for fly tying since 1978.

[13] A gene from the gray junglefowl is responsible for the yellow pigment in the legs and different body parts of all the domestic chicken breeds.

[11] The species has been isolated by a variety of mechanisms, including behavioural differences and genic incompatibility, but hybridization is not unknown.