THE BANKIVA JUNGLE FOWL AND THE TURKEY. 437 



The Bankiva Jungle Fowl is now supposed to be the original stock 

 of the domesticated poultry. 



It is a native of Java, and the male very closely resembles the game- 

 cock of England. It is a splendid creature, with its light-scarlet comb 

 and wattles, its drooping hackles, its long, arched tail, and its flashing 

 eye. The comb and wattles are of brightest scarlet, the long hackles 

 of the neck and lower part of the back are fine orange-red, the upper 

 part of the back is deep blue-black, and the shoulders are ruddy chest- 

 nut. Tlie secondaries and greater coverts are deep steely blue, and the 

 quill feathers of the wing are blackish brown edged with rusty yellow. 

 The long, arched, and drooping tail is blue-black glossed with green, 

 and the breast and under parts black, so that in general aspect it is 

 very like the black-breasted red gamecock. 



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Domestic Fow'ls. 



The domesticated bird is of all the feathered tribe the most directly 

 useful to man, and is the subject of so many valuable treatises that the 

 reader is referred to them for the best mode of breeding, rearing, and 

 general management of poultry. 



The now well-known Turkey is another^example of the success with 

 which foreign birds can be acclimatized in this country. 



The Turkey is spread over many parts of America, such as the wood- 

 ed parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Indiana, etc., but does not 

 seem to extend beyond the Rocky Mountains. It begins to mate about 

 the middle of February, and the males then utter those ludicrous gob- 

 bling sounds which have caused the bird to be called Gobbler or Bub- 

 bly-Jock by the whites, and Oo-coo-coo by the Oherokees. 

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