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make them lay. The species is very wild, and the cocks are 

 not so courageous as ours. They are not easily brought to 

 ally with common hens, but the production is fruitful. 



This species inhabits diiferent parts of Asia ; it is found in 

 Japan and China, where the inhabitants keep them in cages 

 to sell them to the Europeans. It seems improbable that 

 they will ever become very useful in a domesticated state. 



The Crisped or Frieslmid Cock (Var. C. Latham) has 

 all the feathers turned and frizzled ; it is smaller than our 

 common species, more wild, and less suitable for domestic 

 purposes. The chickens of this species are very sensible to 

 cold, and especially to wet ; these birds are seldom reared, 

 but for curiosity. Those which partake most of the primitive 

 type have white plumage and smooth feet. They are natives 

 of Asia, and are found in a domestic state in Java, Sumatra, 

 and all the Indian Archipelago. 



There is a species, called by the Malays, in Java, Ayam- 

 alas {Galliis Furcatus, Temm.) ; this name signifies wild- 

 cock, or cock of the woods. They distinguish it from their 

 ayam-bankiva, and also from Ayam, which is the denomi- 

 nation of the domestic cock. 



The Ayam-alas is remarkable for its horizontal and forked 

 tail, for its smooth crest, and for having but a single wattle, 

 or membranous appendage, which, beginning at the lower 

 mandible of the bill, descends along the naked part of the 

 throat, where it forms several folds. It is also distinguished 

 by the rounded forms of the feathers of the neck, and upper 

 part of the back, the barbs of which are very close, velvety, 

 and scale-like. The male is about two feet long. The hen 

 of the ayam-alas, differs likewise from the common hen, in 

 the tail, form of the neck-feathers, and total want of crest 

 and wattles ; she measures fourteen inches. 



This fine species is very abundant in the great forests of 

 the interior of Java. The birds usually remain during the 



