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of a leg of the natural size, sent to M. Temminck, from Batavia, at 

 the back of which is a tremendous spur, two inches in length, and 

 stout in proportion. 



2.— MALABAR COCK. 



THIS is a very large bird, scarcely inferior to a Hen Turkey, not 

 unfrequently brought into England, by the East India ships, and 

 easily propagated among us. The colour of the plumage is very 

 like that of our Game Cock, with legs remarkably stout, and a 

 large spur, with a gait uncommonly erect, and bold. Such a breed 

 of Fowls is procured in the Dooab in India. The cock bird measures 

 two feet in length, with comb and wattles not far different from 

 many in Europe ; the head, neck, and back, pale or yellowish, 

 streaked with pale ferruginous ; wing coverts ferruginous, paler in 

 the middle ; quills white, or nearly so ; all the under parts fine fer- 

 ruginous ; the feathers falling on each side of the tail pale, dashed 

 down the middle with ferruginous; long tail feathers much the same; 

 legs pale yellow, very stout, with a spur an inch in length. 



In the drawings of Gen. Hardwicke is one, probably a female : 

 in this the comb and wattles are much less conspicuous ; plumage in 

 general deep ferruginous, with a pale dash down the shafts of the 

 feathers; quills and tail dark brown, the latter without any long 

 recumbent feathers ; the hackle at the back of the neck short, paler 

 ferruginous, the feathers black in the middle, with a pale streak 

 down the shaft ; legs pale, stout, with only the rudiment of a spur. 

 Probably this may be the sort which Fryer* talks of* used for 

 fighting at Visapour, which is as large as a Turkey. 



* Travels, p. 165. 



