SONNEEAT'S JUNGLE FOWL.— GoMms Sonneratii. 



coloured with changing hues of purple, green, and gold. The female is a smaller and 

 very sober-looking bird, without comb or wattles, and devoid of the curious horny hackles 

 that decorate her mate. 



The Bankiva Jungle Foavl is now supposed to be the original stock of the 

 domesticated poultry. 



It is a native of Java, and the male very closely reseml)les 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 Hashing eye. The comb and wattles are of the 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 chestnut. The 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 game-cock. 



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. On the accompanying 

 illustration are shown some of the most useful or remarkable of the varieties of this bird. 



Towards the top, and on the left hand, may be seen some exami)les of the famous 

 Cochin Fowl, whose enormous size and ungainly appeai'ance took England so completely 

 by storm some few years ago. Nothing was talked of but Cochin China Fowls, and the 



