THE DOMESTIC FOWL. 19 



thing like an artificial arrangement, which may afford 

 a temporary assistance to the fancier, till a more scien- 

 tific scheme is worked out by wiser heads than my 

 own. Let us first proceed, then, to enumerate the 

 principal species known to exist in a wild state, from 

 which it is any way probable our domestic races 

 were derived. 



THE JAVANESE JUNGLE FOWL. 



SYNONYMES. Gallus bankiva, of Temminck ; Jlyam-utan, or Brooga, 

 of the Malays ; Javan Cock, of Latham ; Bankiva Fowl, Javanese Jungle 

 Fowl, Bankiva Jungle Fowl, of the English and Anglo-Americans. 



This beautiful bird is found wild in Java, and L 

 about equal in size to an ordinary Bantam the black- 

 breasted, red varieties of which, with a dark steel-blue 

 band across the wings, it closely resembles. The space 

 round the eyes and the throat are bare, the comb is 

 much developed and deeply serrated along the upper 

 ridge, the wattles are rather large. Long, clear, bril- 

 liant, golden orange hackles, (plumes,) cover the neck 

 and rump. The upper part of the back, over which 

 the hackles of the neck are continued, is bluish-black. 

 The middle and lesser wing coverts are of a rich deep 



