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planes, side by side ; the coverts in the male are 

 elongated, and form an arch over the tail properly 

 speaking. 



The Cock and Common Poultry. [Phasianus GalluSy 

 L.) Enl. 1 and 49. 



Varies infinitely in colour ; its size, moreover, is very 

 different. There are some races, in which there is 

 a tuft of erect feathers, instead of a comb ; some have 

 feathers on the tarsi, and even on the toes ; others 

 have the crest, the wattles, and the periosteum of 

 all the skeleton, black; certain monstrous races 

 have, for many generations, five, and even six toes.* 

 We are now acquainted with many species of the 

 wild cock, as 



The U-^ild Cock, Lath. Gallus Sonneratiiy Tem. 

 Col. 232 and 3. 



Very remarkable for the plumes of the neck of 



' Temminck regards the following domestic birds as arising from dis- 

 tinct species, as yet undiscovered in their wild state : — 



The Negro Cock, Lath. Gallus Morio and Mozambicus, Brisson, with the 

 combs, wattles, and periosteum, black, and the body variously coloured. 

 From India. 



The SilJc Cock, Lath. Gallus Lanatus, Temm. PI. Enl. t. 218, white, 

 with the feathers resembling silk. From China and India. Skin and perios. 

 teum, black. 



The Crisped or Frizzled Cock, Gallus Crispus, Brisson ; t. 17. f. 1. Stor' 

 degl. Ucc. ij. t. 215; with the feathers reflexed and resolute, and finely 

 variegated. 



The two former are probably varieties of an unknown species; the latter 

 appear to differ very little from the Gallus DomesHcus. 



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