POULTRY 3 



raiding a neighbour's farm-yard when an old 

 cock or hen gets up with a desperate cackle 

 and flutter. To look at, too, jungle-fowl are 

 just like some tame fowls, especially game 

 bantams, for the cocks are black and red, and 

 the hens brown, but they are smaller than 

 most tame fowls, though not so small as 

 bantams ought to be, being about as big 

 as pheasants, as I said. They have single 

 combs the upright sort with notches and 

 the hen's comb is very small, like a young 

 pullet's. The little chickens are striped with 

 chocolate and cream-colour, just like game 

 chickens ; you do not see any yellow or black 

 ones. 



Jungle-cocks crow just like bantams you 

 know how a bantam always ends up his crow 

 with a jerk but they do not crow so much as 

 tame cocks ; I never heard of a jungle-cock 

 doing anything so silly as crowing in the 

 night, which would advertise his roosting- 

 place to all his enemies, such as wild cats and 

 the great horned owls. They have tremend- 

 ous spurs, about two inches long, and tapering 

 most beautifully to a point, and they know 

 how to use them. An old friend of mine in 



