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» where sprinkled with small, white, round spots. Its noisy and 
* — quarrelsome ‘disposition render it a very unwelcome guest in 
poultry-yards, although its flesh is excellent. Ina wild state 
they live in large flocks, and prefer the vicinity of marshes. 
There are also two species, 
N. cristata and N. mitrata, Pall., Spic., IV, pl. ii and iii, fig. 
1; Vieill. Galer., pl., ccix, in the first of which the head is 
ornamented with a plumed crest, and in the second with a conical 
helmet. A third has lately been discovered in which the helmet 
is very small, and which has a small tuft on the base of the beak, 
composed of short stems, almost without barbs. J. ptylorhyn- 
cha, Licht. The great genus, 
: ; Puasranus, Lin. . 
Or that of the Piitastats; is Characterized by the cheeks being 
partly destitute of feathers, and covered with a red skin, and by the 
tectiform tail, in which the feathers are variousl y'disposed. We first 
distinguish, 
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The Cock, in which the head is surmounted with a vertical and 
fleshy crest, and each side of the lower mandible furnis ed with 
fleshy wattles. The quills of the tail, fourteen in number, are ele- 
vated on two vertical planes, placed back to back; the covertsof that 
of the male are extended into an arch over the tail proper.. The spe- 
cies so common in our barn-yards, 
Phas. gallus, L.; Enl. 1 and 49 (The Common Cock and 
Hen), varies infinitely as to colour, and even greatly as to size; 
in some races the crest is replaced by a tuft of feathers, or a 
top-knot; in others the tarsi, and even the toes, are feathered; 
in one race the crest, wattles, and periosteum of the whole skele- 
ton are black, and in others, by a kind of monstrosity, we find 
five, and even six toes, for several generations. 
Several species of wild Cocks are known. The first, 
Gallus Sonneratii, Tem. Col., 232 and 233 (The Jungle Cock), 
was described by Sonnerat, Voy. II, Atl., 117, 118, and is very 
remarkable for the feathers on the neck of the male, the stems 
of which widen at the bottom into three successive disks of a 
horny nature. The crest is denticulate. It is found in the 
gauts of Hindostan. . 
Two others have been brought from Java by M. Lechenaud, 
one of which, Gall. Bankiva, Tem., hasa denticulated crest like 
the preceding; all the feathers of the neck being long, pendent, 
and of the most beautiful golden red; it appears to me to bear 
