78 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [February, 1910. 



To know the colours and breeding of a game-cock. — You must 

 know that the following are the colours of the game-fowl : — 



1. Ldkhd (or red). 



2. Pild l (or dark yellow). 



3. Jawd 1 (or well-mixed white and black). 



4. Chita (or spotted, main colour dark with white spots. 



i.e., of several colours). 



5. Nuri (or pure white). 



6. Ldkhorx (or very dark red). 



7. Kesariyd 3 (or light yellow). 



8. Ghd-i khiydr* (or ?). 



9. Do-bdz (or half the wing ldkhd and half white). 



10. Siydh (or black). 



Game-fowls are found in all these colours. The game 

 cock has a beak, white like a pealed almond or like ivory, and 

 the stalke, feet, and nails are white like the beak, and down 

 the middle of the stalke there is a line drawn 5 : the eyes ar« 

 white and blood-shot, the comb is small, and the head large. 

 A cock with a hanging comb is a powerful spurrer 6 ; but one 

 with a small comb is quick and active. One with a large, 

 straight and castellated comb and very pendulous wattles 7 is 

 called bihangum 8 or " awkward looking ' ' , and one with a small 

 comb shorter than its head is called tikariya 9 and is quick and 



the better. 



pact 



In the author's opinion the best birds have thick, powerful 

 beaks, white as described above ; the eyes white like lustrous 

 pearls ; large jaws and head; a small comb ; the tutan ll bone is 

 conspicuous; the neck short and the neck-bones ** small, fine, 



small 



mill 



the muhra, n gul-kdr or spotted, and beautiful like the eye of a 



fch© upper or lower lids are stitched to the bottom or the top of the head 

 so that the eyes are forcibly kept open and the cock can see- When in 

 about 10 days the swelling goes down the stitches are removed. 



1 Yellow is not a game colour. 



2 Or jawa. 



3 ' ' Saffron-coloured." 



4 Gvl-i-khairu ? Marsh mallow flowers, Althcea officinalis. 



5 The scales (fils or pulak) should so meet in front that an indented 

 line is formed. 



6 Katet strikes forcibly and quickly. 



7 Lolkl ; wattles, below. 



8 Bihangam, Hindi, clumsy in shape and also awkward in manner. 

 & Tikariya or tekar with a small low comb, in Hindi chapta taj. 



It is not necessary to cut such a comb. 



!0 Taint fowls have a soft loose pope's nose. The tail-feathers, too. 

 should droop and not point upwards. 



1 1 . Tutan, the neckbone next the skull. 



12 Garden ke manke. 



13 ij#G apparently a misprint. 



