166 PHEASANT. 



3— JAVAN COCK. 



Gallus Bankiva, Lin. Trans, xiii. 135. 319. Temm. Pig. Sf Gall. 8vo. ii. 87. 



LENGTH twenty inches or more. The bill as in our common 

 Poultry, pale brown ; sides of the head bare ; from the forehead to 

 the middle of the crown a comb, serrated on the top, as in our Cock ; 

 on each side of the jaw, a wattle of a moderate size ; the crown, 

 nape, and neck, furnished wholly with fulvo-ferruginous hackles, 

 very bright in colour; at the lower part of the back similar hackle- 

 like feathers, but of a paler colour, and hang on each side over the 

 quills ; the middle of the back, and across the middle of the wing 

 coverts, fine reddish chestnut ; but the shoulders, the lower series of 

 wing coverts, and scapulars, are steel black ; quills tawny brown, 

 with blackish ends, within dusky ; beneath the body, from the breast, 

 and under wing coverts, black ; tail steel black, long, curving down- 

 wards, the feathers of unequal lengths ; the two middle ones being 

 eleven inches ; the shortest only five ; the two longest bend as a 

 sickle, and are four inches longer than the adjacent one; legs dusky, 

 with a stout, and sharp spur, three quarters of an inch in length. 



The supposed female is much smaller, and has hackles likewise 

 on the neck, which are brownish black, edged with buff; the 

 plumage on the upper parts of the body brown, minutely speckled, 

 or powdered with buff, only to be seen on close inspection ; breast 

 and belly rufous clay-colour, the feathers with pale shafts, appearing 

 as a line; top of the head brown, mixed with paler brown; tail 

 cuneiform, forming a ridge on the upper part, and carried like that 

 of the Common Hen ; the bill is pale brown ; legs without a spur. 



Inhabits Java ; frequent also in the forests of Sumatra, and called 

 Ayamutan, or Brooga. — A specimen in the Museum of Mr. Bullock 

 seems to coincide in many things with the Bankiva above quoted, as 



