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small size, and are thus very easily recognisable ; 

 the various species are very distinct from each 

 other, and only four in number ; three of them 

 occur in Indian limits. 



The jungle-fowls are fond of cover, and roost 

 on trees at night, a habit which the tame fowl has 

 retained. His habit of crowing at night is, how- 

 ever, an original invention on his part, for which 

 mankind used once tO' thank him, but now, alas ! 

 legally indict as a nuisance. 



Jungle-fowls are often found in pairs, though a 

 cock naturally likes to have a hare9i if possible, 

 and they are very hard fighters. The cocks show 

 off by slanting themselves over to one side, as is 

 constantly seen in the tame fowl. 



The Red Jungle-Fowl. 



Gallus ferrugineus, Faun. Brit. India, Birds, 

 Vol. IV, p. 75. 



Native names : — Jangal-murgh (cock), Jangli- 

 murghi (hen), Hindi ; Ban murghi, Hindi ; 

 Kukar, Kukra, Bankukar, Beng. ; Gdnja 

 (cock), Uriya ; Pazok-iohi,. Tang-kling, 

 Lepcha ; Nag-tse-ia, Bhota nese ; Bir-sim, 

 Kol ; Gera gogor (cock), Kuru (hen), Gond ; 

 Taukyet, Burmese.; Kura, Chittagong. 



In this the best known species and the ancestor 

 of all our tame poultry, the face is naked in both 

 sexes, though less in the hen than the cock, and 

 there is a flap of skin below the ear--the " ear- 

 lobe ' ' of poultry-fanciers. The wattles, fleshy 

 flaps of skin on each side of the throat, are usually 



