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Title: Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894 Gillmore, Parker
Subjects: Reptiles Birds
Publisher: London : Cassell & Co.

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umage is generally dull atidunattractive, their straight and slightly-raised tails are limited to anordinary proportion ; their crest is reduced to the most simple ex-crescence, and in certain species entirely disappears ; lastly, their legsare without the spur with which the male is armed. Whatever may be the opinion adopted as to the origin of theDomestic Fowl, we know that amongst the species indigenous to Asiaare the Bankiva race (Gallus Bankiva), which so nearly resembles ourvillage chanticleer as to be often confused with it; the Jungle Fowl(Galliis 6(?//;/^;^//), inhabiting Java, Sumatra, and Hindostan; theBronzed Cock (Gallus cenens); the Forked-tailed Cock (6^^////i/7/rt<:////i);and the Giant Cock or Kulm Cock, the largest species known. Theseare considered, not without reason, the founders of our most extensiveraces. The last-mentioned lives both in a wild and domestic state inJava, Sumatra, and India proper. The Negro Cock offers a very remarkable case of contrast to the
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XX.-Ar^is. THE DOMESTIC FOWL. 405 above-mentioned, for the crest, gills, epidermis, periosteum, andfeathers of this species are black, but the flesh is white. The NegroCock, very largely spread over Belgium and Germany, still lives infreedom in the Indies. Although to the Bankiva race alone someattribute the honour of being progenitors to our domestic stock, I

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