THE BANKIVA COCK. 175 



nette accompanying this volume. It will stand as 



the 



BANKIVA COCK. 



Callus bankiva TEMMINCK. 

 (See Vignette Title-page.) 



Coq et Poule Bankiva, Temminck, Pigeons et Gallinacfo, 



'L p. 86 Gallus Bankiva, and Ayara utan or Brooga, 



Transactions of Linnean Society, xiii. p. 135. and 319. 

 Javan Cock, Latham, General History, vol. viii. p. 166. 

 Gallus Bankiva, Illustrations of Ornithology, plate 150. 



Many Bantams so nearly resemble this bird, that 

 there would be great difficulty in making a distinc- 

 tion. Around the eyes and the throat is bare, the 

 comb is ample, with an irregular outline, and narrow 

 lengthened lobes arise from the crown, and two wattles 

 spring from the lower mandible. The head, back, 

 and sides of the neck surrounding the bare skin up- 

 on the throat and the rump, are covered with long 

 hackles of a clear and brilliant golden-orange. Be- 

 low the hackles the upper part of the back is bluish- 

 black, and the centre with the lesser wing-coverts 

 are of a rich deep chestnut, the webs of the feathers 

 quite disunited. The greater coverts are steel-blue, 

 the secondaries of the same colour, with a broad 

 irargin of chestnut, the quills brownish-black, edged 

 with pale reddish -yellow. The tail is black, with 

 rich green and blue reflections, the whole under parti 

 are black. 



