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SONNERAT'S WILD COCK. 



Callus Sonneratii. TEMMINCK. 

 PLATE XI. MALE. XII. FEMALE. 



Coq sauvage, Sonnerafs India, ii. pis. 94. & 95 Phasianus 

 Gallus, Lath. Index Ornithologicus.~Coci et Poule Son- 

 nerat, Temminck, Pigeons et Gallinacees, ii. p. 246. 

 Planches Coloriees, pis. 232, 233 Sonnerat's Wild Cock, 

 Latham's General History r , vol. viii. p. 181. 



SONNERAT'S Cock has been dedicated by M. 

 Temminck to its discoverer. The first notice we 

 find of it which can be trusted, is in the Voyage to 

 India by that traveller, under the title of Wild Cock, 

 and asserting it as the probable stock from which all 

 our domestic races have arisen. The very great dif- 

 ference of the structure of the plumage, however, 

 renders this most improbable ; and none of the do- 

 mesticated races in India bear the least resemblance 

 to it. It is a native of the continent of India, inha- 

 biting the higher wooded districts, particularly In- 

 dostan, where, among English sportsmen, it receives 

 the name of Jungle Fowl ; and specimens of it, next 

 to the Bankiva cock, are much the most frequent in 

 collections in this country. In size, it is nearly 

 equal to an ordinary domestic fowl, the proportions 



