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Scmi-bliic and Black Pied Pigmy Pouter, Blue Runt, Russian 

 Trumpeter, Carriei", Pied Carrier, Yellow Dragon, Bhick Pied Scan- 

 deroon, Red-chefjuered Short-faced Antwerp, Short-faced Antwerp, 

 Archangel, White Fantail, Silver Owl, Satinette, Barb, Silver Blondi- 

 nette, Blue-barred Blondinette, Blue-laced Blondinette, Peaked 

 Blondinette, Sandy Frill-back, lilue Frill-back, Stirling, Suabian, 

 Nun, Black Swallow, Magpie, Almond-Tumbler, Short-faced Almond 

 Tumbler (skeleton). White Jacobin, Spangled Siberian Ice, Short- 

 faced Blue-Beard, Black Short-faced Ancient, Homer or Voyageur, 

 and Modena. There is also a pair of the Ground-Tumbler or 

 Lotan bre ed fr om India. 



_ . The wild Red Jungle-Fowl {Gallus f&rrngineus), 



''' which is common in Northern India, and ranges 

 eastward to Siam, Cochin China and the Malay countries, is 

 supposed to be the parent stock of all the domesticated breeds of 

 Fowls. It is represented by specimens from Sikhim, presented 

 by Mr. A. 0. Hume in 1885, which, like most of the following 

 examples, are exhibited in a case in the Central Hall. In the 

 same case the Wild Ceylon Jungle-Fowl {Gallus lafayetti^ is 

 represented by a cock and hen from Ceylon, purchased in 1905. 

 This species is nearly allied to the Red Jungle-Fowl, but there is no 

 definite evidence that it is the ancestor of any of the domesticated 

 breeds ; although recent experiments indicate the possibility that it may 

 be connected with some of them. Considerable interest attaches to 

 a group of Fowls shot in the woods on Taviuni, one of the Fiji 

 Islands. The birds are the descendants of Domesticated Fowls left 

 by the early voyagers more than a century ago. They have now 

 reverted to the wild state, and assumed more or less of the characters 

 of the Indian Jungle-Fowl. These specimens were presented by Mr. 

 E. L. Layard in 1876. Nearly allied to the Wild Jungle-Fowl are 

 Game-Fowls, of which an Old English Gamecock, with the comb, 

 wings, and tail trimmed for fighting, and artificial spurs on the legs, 

 is exhibited. This bird was trimmed more than forty years ago by 

 an expert, and was purchased in 1905. 



Coloured Dorkings are represented by a cock and hen pre- 

 sented by the Hon. Florence Amherst in 1904, and by a second 

 pair presented by Messrs. John Baily and Sons in the same year. 

 Of the Buff Cochin breed a pair is exhibited of which the cock 

 was the winner of fifty, and the hen of more than forty prizes. 

 They were presented by Mr. G. H. Proctor in 1900. The curious 

 White Silky breed is represented by a cock and hen from France, 



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