THE FORK-TAILED COCK. 
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to have a slightly forked form : the large hanging 
feathers are of a rich metallic green, tinged with 
steel-blue. The bill, legs, and feet, are yellow. 
The hen has a circle round the eyes only, naked 
and of a livid tint : the head and back part of the 
neck are brown, and above each eye there is a red- 
dish streak : the back and wing-coverts are of a dull 
green, with golden reflections, each feather having a 
greyiBh-brown margin : the greater coverts and se- 
condaries are black, with greenish reflections, waved 
transversely with yellowish-brown, and having the 
tips entirely of that colour; the tail and wings brown, 
the feathers of the former edged with pale reddish, 
the whole of the under parts are grey, the tips of the 
feathers on the breast tipped with a deeper tint ; the 
feet and legs are brown. 
This bird is said to be very abundant in Java, and 
may be often seen during the day upon the edges 
of the woods and jungles, but possesses the same 
wary disposition of its congeners and the pheasants, 
and upon the least alarm runs for cover. Tem- 
minck observes that they are not kept in a domestic 
state, but that they occasionally breed with the tame 
hens — a curious fact, and showing the uncertainty 
with which the true origin is clouded. The cry 
may be expressed, he says, by the syllables co-crek. 
The last that we shall here notice, is still more 
remarkable in the form of the neck and back fea- 
thers, which are completely separated in their form 
and colour from all the others. It is 
