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the adult cock moults every year. They are black, with a faint violet gloss, a wide 

 greyish or rusty fringe and a very narrow shaft-streak. The lower mantle, back and 

 rump show somewhat the same general pattern, but lack the gloss and have much more 

 adventitious mottling. The grey fringe is much whiter. 



The primaries are plain brown, but the visible parts of the greater coverts and the 

 secondaries are thickly mottled and vermiculated with sandy brown. The median 

 coverts are most interesting as showing well-developed waxy spots of yellow ochre, and 

 terminal shading of reddish-orange, hinting that this zone of specialization is older than 

 the others. The tail-feathers, like the secondaries, are much mottled. The under parts 

 are very similar to the plumage of the adult cock, with the colours less distinct and 

 separate. There is sometimes a slight tinge of orange on the flanks. 



In the full-grown juvenile bird, both the irides and the feet and legs are yellowish- 

 brown. The upper mandible is brownish, duller than in the adult, and the lower 

 mandible yellowish. The comb and facial skin are pink. Length, 380 mm. ; culmen 

 from nostril, 14; wing, 200; tail, 125; tarsus, 70; middle toe and claw, 55 mm. 



PosT-JuvENiLE OR FiRST ANNUAL MouLT. — With this moult the adult plumage 

 is attained, the chief difference from the juvenile plumage being the acquisition of the 

 specialized hackles and central tail-feathers. There is a great deal of variation, however, 

 in the amount of clearing up of the plumage, and in birds which have moulted early 

 the waxy hackles are very imperfectly developed and the general body plumage and 

 wing-feathers much mottled with brown or sandy. 



EARLY HISTORY 



Under the name Coq et Poule sauvage des Indes we may recognize the Grey 

 Junglefowl in Mon. Sonnerat's Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine, which was 

 '' Fait par ordre du Roi, depuis 1774 jusquen 178L" He gives a long, rambling 

 description of both cock and hen, and a black-and-white engraving vaguely showing the 

 sealing-wax hackles, but nothing of the habits or life of the bird. His final conclusion 

 is the very erroneous one that this Junglefowl represents the progenitor of our breeds 

 of domestic fowls. Other authors simply copy Sonnerat or enlarge on his facts with 

 sad effect. All agree with his theory of descent, until Temminck in 1813 proves 

 conclusively that this is an error, and names the bird in question after its first 

 describer Callus Sonneratii. 



SYNONYMY 



Coq et Poule sauvage des Indes Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. Orient, IL 1782, p. 148, pis. 94, 95. 



Wild Cock Latham, Gen. Syn,, II. 1783, p. 698. 



Phasianus gallus Scop, (nee Linn.), Del Flor. et Faun. Insubr., pt. II. 1786, p. 93 ; Gmelin, S. N. I., pt. II., 

 1788, p. 737 ; Latham, Ind. Orn., II. 1790, p. 625 ; Bonnat. Tabl. Encycl. M6th., I. 1791, p. 180, pi. m, figs. 4, 5. ' 



Sonnerat s Wild Cock Latham, Gen. Hist, VIII. 1823, p. 181. 



Gallus sonnerati Temminck, Pig. et Gall, II. 1813, p. 246, III. 1815, p. 649; Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool, 

 XI. 1819, p. 200, pi. 12 ; Temminck, PI. Col., V. 1823, pis. i and 2, Nos. 232, 233 ; Vieillot, Gal. Ois., II. 1825, P- 

 26; Griff, ed. Cuv., III. 1829, p. 19; Lesson, Trait6 d'Orn, 1831, p. 492; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1832, p. 151 

 [W. Ghauts]; Schinz, Nat. Abbild. Vog., 1833, p. 243, pi. 94; Jard. Nat. Lib. Orn. 1834, p. 186, pis. XI. and 

 XII.; Gray, List of Birds, pt. III. Gall., 1844, p. 27; id. Gen. B.,III. 1845, P- 499; Blyth, Ann. Mag. N. H., XX. 



