REAWE env’ 
JAVAN JUNGLEFOWL 
Gallus varius (Shaw and Nodder) 
Earty in the morning, before the sun appeared, picking my way quietly through a tangle of cactus 
on the low-lying Javan coast, with a shrike sitting in every tree, with bulbuls singing from every thicket, 
there would come across the valley a sharp, crisp, virile chaw-au-auk/ the challenge of the Javan Jungle- 
fowl. With erect iridescent comb and plumage glittering with dew, the splendid wild fowl was leading 
his family from their roosting-place to the nearest pool of water for their sunrise drink. 
