. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. ' native .s]ioi'tsmoii, IS their champion. )uie jiersoiis have 'lie Iiaiikiva Fowl, these useful liiids. lelieviiiL!' that the :>bs of the hackles go, dihitiug in the e luie, whieli i^ive l>Ui distance, their SONNERAT'S JUNGLE VOyiL.âCaVus Honiicmlii. cnhnu'cd with chan,t,nng Imes of purple, green, and j^old. The female is a smaller and very sober-looking bird, without comb or wattles, and devoid of the curious horny liackles that decorate her mate. The Bankiva Jungle Yowl is now supposed
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. ' native .s]ioi'tsmoii, IS their champion. )uie jiersoiis have 'lie Iiaiikiva Fowl, these useful liiids. lelieviiiL!' that the :>bs of the hackles go, dihitiug in the e luie, whieli i^ive l>Ui distance, their SONNERAT'S JUNGLE VOyiL.âCaVus Honiicmlii. cnhnu'cd with chan,t,nng Imes of purple, green, and j^old. The female is a smaller and very sober-looking bird, without comb or wattles, and devoid of the curious horny liackles that decorate her mate. The Bankiva Jungle Yowl is now supposed to be the original stock of the (lonicsticated poidtry. It is a native of Java, and the male very closely resemliles the game-cock of England. It is a s])lendid creature, with its light scarlet cond) and wattles, its droojiing hackles, its huig archeil tail, and its ihtshi'-ig eye. The comb and wattles are of the brightest scarlet, the long hackles of the neck and lower part of the back are tine orange-red, the upper pint of the back is deep blue-bla'h, and the shoulders are ruddy chestnut. The secondaries ;iiul gri'ater coverts are deep steely blue, and the (luill-feathers of the wing are blackish lii'own edged with rusty yellow. The long, arched and drooping tail is blue-black glossed with green, and tlu^ lu'cast and under parts black, so that in general aspect it is very like the black-breasted red game-cock. The domesticated bird is of all the feathered tribe the most directly useftil to man, and is the sidijeet of so many valuable treatises that the reader is referred to them for the best mode of breeding, reari* â and general management of ]Kndtry. On the accompanying ilhistraticui are shown some of the most useful or remarkable of the varieties of this l)ird. Tdwards the top, and on (he left lumd, may lie seen i^ome exami'les of the famous Cncliin Fowl, whose enornuuis size and ungainly a]ipearance took England so completely by storm some few years, ago. Nothing was t
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