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WILD COCK. 



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Coq fauvage des Indes, Saa. Fey. Ind. vol. u. p. 153. pi. 94. 

 Poule, • '< — p. 160. pi- 95. 



'"PHE length of this bird is two feet four inches. The bill an 

 inch and a quarter : the body one-third lefs than in the 

 Domejlic Cock : the comb large, dentated, and of a bright red 1 

 the wattles as in the common Cock : the fides of the head, and a 

 longitudinal line between the creft and eye, naked j all the naked 

 parts are flelh-coloured : behind the eye is a pearl-coloured fpot, 

 of the fize and lhape of the little finger nail, compofed of very 

 fhort feathers : thofe on the head and neck are long and narrow, 

 the longeft below j the webs of them equal on each fide -, the 

 ihafts are broad, and fo vifible as to give each feather the appear- 

 ance of being ftriped down the middle ; at the bafe the colour is 

 grey, in the middle black, and at the end white, at which part 

 the fhaft is fpread out, and appears as a yellowifh white fpot, of a 

 glofiy appearance, and in fubftance horny, like that in the wing 

 of the Chatterer: the feathers of the upper parts of the body are 

 Song and narrow, greyifh, crofted with white ; on each fide of 

 the white ftripe is one of black : the breaft, fides, and thighs, 

 are like thofe above, but broadeft on the thighs : the feathers of 

 the breaft incline to rufous, and have a glofly cartilaginous ap- 

 pearance, like thofe of the neck : the wings reach to the begin- 

 ning of the tail : quills of a duflcy black ; thofe of the lefier co- 

 verts like the back j the greater, long, narrow, and {tiff - ; of a 

 rufous-colour, inclining to chefnut, tranfverfely ftriped black 

 and white: the tail coverts are violet, with a polilhed glofs : the 

 tail as ufual in the Cock : the legs are five inches long, and fur- 

 nifhed with a large bent fpur behind, of one inch one-third long. 



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