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to be eaten showing that its domestication was accomplished 

 [in India] when they were written. The bird is not mentioned 

 in the Old Testament, nor by Homer, . . . nor is it figured on 

 ancient Egyptian monuments. Pindar mentions it, and Aristo- 

 phanes calls it the Persian bird, thus indicating it to have been 

 introduced to Greece through Persia, and it is figured on Baby- 



Fig. 1179. Game-Fowls 



Ionian cylinders between the sixth and seventh centuries B.C. 

 It is sculptured on the Lycian marbles in the British Museum 

 (circa 600 B.C.), and Blyth remarks (Ibis, 1867) that it is there 

 represented with the appearance of a true Jungle Fowl, for none 

 of the wild galli have the upright bearing of the tame breeds, 

 but carry their tail in a drooping position." 



THE DUCK (ANAS BOSCHAS). Ducks are of less importance 

 than Fowls, but their uses are much the same. There is little 

 if any doubt that the ordinary breeds of domesticated Duck 



