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to be eaten—showing that its domestication was accomplished 
[in India] when they were written. The bird is not mentioned 
in the Old Testament, nor by Homer, . . . nor is it figured on 
ancient Egyptian monuments. Pindar mentions it, and Aristo- 
phanes calls it the Persian bird, thus indicating it to have been 
introduced to Greece through Persia, and it is figured on Baby- 
Fig. 1179.—Game-Fowls 
lonian cylinders between the sixth and seventh centuries B.c. 
It is sculptured on the Lycian marbles in the British Museum 
(cerca 600 B.c.), and Blyth remarks (/ézs, 1867) that it is there 
represented with the appearance of a true Jungle Fowl, for none 
of the wild gadz have the upright bearing of the tame breeds, 
but carry their tail in a drooping position.” 
Tue Duck (Anas Boscuas).—Ducks are of less importance 
than Fowls, but their uses are much the same. There is little 
if any doubt that the ordinary breeds of domesticated Duck 
