HISTORICAL ASPECT 



namely, Gallus bankiva, G. Sonneratii, G. Stanleyii, G. 

 Varius (or furcatus). While there has been much discus- 

 sion and difference of opinion, it is generally conceded that 

 the evidence points to the Gallus bankivus as the original 

 progenitor. This species is a Bantam-sized fowl, patterned 

 much after the Red Game of our day. The male Bankivus 

 has the color and carriage of the Game. 



* ' Specimens of this fowl, ' ' says Mr. Dixon, ' * were brought 

 from the island of Java and deposited in the museum of 

 Paris. They inhabit the 

 forests and borders of 

 woods, and are exceed- 

 ingly wild. On examin- 

 ing the species, it will be 

 found to exhibit many 

 points of resemblance 

 with our common barn- 

 yard fowls of the 

 smaller or middling size. 

 The form and color are 

 the same, the comb and 

 wattles are smaller, and 

 the hen so m u c-h r e - 

 sembles the common hen that it is difficult to dis- 

 tinguish it except by the less erect slant of the 

 tail. The rise of the tail is much more apparent 

 in the male, but it may be observed that in all wild species 

 known, the tail does not rise so high above the level of the 

 rump, nor is it so abundantly provided with covering 

 feathers as in the common birds. Feathers which fall from 

 the neck over the top of the back are, as in other fowls, long 

 and with divided plumelets or braids, the feathers widening 

 a little and being rounded. The colors of the plumage are 

 exceedingly brilliant. The head, the neck, and all the long 



JUNGLE FOWL COCK (Gallus bankivus) 

 Reproduced from Carnegie Institution. 

 Publication No. 121, 1909, by Charles S. 

 Davenport. 



