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The hen is one third lefs than the cock, and has neither tomb Female. 

 nor wattles. The head and hind part of the neck are grey : cheeks 

 and throat whitilh : the lower part of the neck behind brownifli, 

 tranfverfely ftriped with rufous white : fore parts, breaft, and 

 belly, brown, ftriped with dirty white : fides of the body grey : 

 the feathers of the back pale brown, tinged with grey ; pale ru- 

 fous down the fhafts : wing coverts the fame : quills blackifh 

 within, brownifh dotted with grey without '. tail greyifh : legs 

 fcaly, grey : inflead of a fpur a rifing knob. 



This, according to the above author, is probably the original 

 ftock from whence all our domefiic varieties have originally 

 fprung; and inhabits the forefts of India. 



There are few places where the different voyagers have not 

 met with cocks and bens, either wild or tame ; and mention has 

 been particularly made of finding them at St. Jago, Pulo Con- 

 dore *, IJle of Timor, Philippine and Molucca ifles, Sumatra and 

 Java f, New Guinea J, Tinian \, and molt of the ifles of the 

 South Seas §. «■ 



* Like ours, but much lefs ; only of the fize of a Crow. The cocks crow 



like ours, but much more fmaH and Ihrill. — Damp. Voy. vol. i. p. 392. Two 



wild ones Ihot there by our laft voyagers. — Ellis's Narr. ii. p. 340. 



f Thofe of Sumatra and Java remarkably large (called the St. Jago breed) 

 the cock fo tall as to peck off a common dining-table. When fatigued, fit down or 

 the firft joint of the leg ; and are then taller than the common fowls. — Hiji. 

 Sumatr. p. 98. 



J But not in plenty. — Talking of marriage, it is mentioned, " that they kill 

 " a Cock which is procured with difficulty, and then it is a marriage." — Forr. 

 Voy. p. 105. 



|| The fowls which were met with wild " were run down without much trou- 

 " ble, as they could fcarce fly farther than one hundred yards at a flight." — 

 Anforfs Voy. p. 416. 



■§ For/ltr obferves, that they are plenty at Eajler, Society, and Friendly 



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