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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 mostinteresting 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 Movutt.—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 Cog e¢ 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 Rot, depuis 1774 jusguwen 1781.’ 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 Gallus Sonneratit. 
SYNONYMY 
Cog et Poule sauvage des Indes Sonnerat, Voy. Ind. Orient, II. 1782, p. 148, pls. 94, 95. 
Wild Cock Latham, Gen. Syn., II. 1783, p. 698. 
Phasianus gallus Scop. (nec 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. Méth., I. 1791, p. 180, pl. 86, figs. 4, 5. 
Sonnerat’s Wild Cock Latham, Gen. Hist., VIII. 1823, p. 181. 
Gallus sonneratti Temminck, Pig. et Gall. II. 1813, p. 246, III. 1815, p. 649; Steph. in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., 
XI. 1819, p. 200, pl. 12; Temminck, Pl. Col., V. 1823, pls. r and 2, Nos. 232, 233; Vieillot, Gal. Ois., II. 1825, p. 
26; Griff. ed. Cuv., III. 1829, p. 19; Lesson, Traité d’Orn, 1831, p. 492; Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1832, p. 151 
[W. Ghauts]; Schinz, Nat. Abbild. Vog., 1833, p. 243, pl. 94; Jard. Nat. Lib. Orn. 1834, p. 186, pls. 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. 
