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with reference to the size of our village cock, which is inter- 

 mediate between that of the Jago and Bankiva ; 3d, from 

 the nature of the feathers, and the forms and distribution of 

 the barbs, which are absolutely the same in our domestic 

 cocks ; 4th, because it is in those two species alone that the 

 females are provided with a crest and small barbies, charac- 

 ters not found in any other of the primitive species which are 

 known. 



As the influence of domestication in the cock has produced 

 alterations in the entire forms of the body and of the fleshy ap- 

 pendages, it is difficult to indicate the races which owe their 

 origin to the same stock or source. M. Temminck seems to think 

 that the race of the Paduan Cock, and that of the Sancevarre, 

 have much analogy with the species Jago, while that called 

 the Turkish Cock has more relations with the species Bankiva. 

 The races most approaching those two primitive species, have 

 experienced the fewest alterations from domestication, and 

 they may have produced, by inter-alliance — 1st, the race of 

 village cocks with crest and barbies ; 2nd, that of tufted 

 cocks, with small crest and barbies, in which those juices 

 proper to form the fleshy appendages, appear to have been 

 expended in the production of the tuft of feathers which 

 ornaments the head ; 3d, all those races of cocks, whose 

 tarsi and toes are more or less covered with feathers, whose 

 origin must be attributed to superabundance of nutriment, 

 which has in this instance produced feathers on the legs, as it 

 has formed a tuft on the head of the crested cock ; 4th, the 

 race of Hamburgh cocks, which have the head hooded, and 

 the feathers stretched back over the ears. 



These races, and a considerable number of others, by re- 

 peated inter-alliance have produced an infinite number of 

 varieties : and doubtless many more might be produced, and 

 other permanent races be formed, by care and attention in 



