. SONNERAT S JUNGLE FOWL. Several authors of the highest respectability and most unquestionable erudition—among whom Buffon and Sonnerat—have endeavored to show that all the varieties of domestic fowl with which we are now acquainted sprang originally from one primitive stock. This opinion has obtained many advocates. Zoologists are, in general, apparently possessed with an anxious desire to curtail, as much as possible, the number of primitive types whence the several races of animals have sprung; with poultr)'-, however, this desire must be frustrated. Dampier saw wild hens at Puloncondar, T
. SONNERAT S JUNGLE FOWL. Several authors of the highest respectability and most unquestionable erudition—among whom Buffon and Sonnerat—have endeavored to show that all the varieties of domestic fowl with which we are now acquainted sprang originally from one primitive stock. This opinion has obtained many advocates. Zoologists are, in general, apparently possessed with an anxious desire to curtail, as much as possible, the number of primitive types whence the several races of animals have sprung; with poultr)'-, however, this desire must be frustrated. Dampier saw wild hens at Puloncondar, Timor, and St. Jago. Sonnini describes wild cocks which he saw in the forests of South America. Temminck procured wUd cocks from Java, Sumatra, and Ceylon ; and all these birds differed essentially, in character and appearance, from all our then known domestic races—from those found by Sonnerat in the Indies—and, finally, from each other. This statement, like many other novelties, though scouted at the time by Sonnerat and others, whO; bigoted to their own pre-declared opinion, were, of course, in- terested in their contradiction, have since been amply and authoritatively confirmed. I have neither the wish nor the intention to waste my own time, or that
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