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SONNERAT’S WILD COCK. 
Gallus Sonneratii. — Temminck. 
PLATE XI. Male— XII. Female. 
Coq sauvage, Sonnerat's India, ii. pis. S4. & 95 Phasianus 
Gallus, Lath. Index Ornithologicus. — Coq et Poule Son- 
nerat, Temminck, Pigeons et Gallinacees, ii. p. 246 
Planches Coloriees, pis. 232, 233. — Sonnerat’s Wild Cock, 
Latham's General History, vol. viii. p. 181. 
Sonnerat’s Cock has been dedicated by M. 
Temminck to its discoverer. The first notice we 
find of it which can be trusted, is in the Voyage to 
India by that traveller, under the title of Wild Cock, 
and asserting it as the probable stock from which all 
our domestic races have arisen. The very great dif- 
ference of the structure of the plumage, however, 
renders this most improbable ; and none of the do- 
mesticated races in India bear the least resemblance 
to it. It is a native of the continent of India, inha- 
biting the higher wooded districts, particularly In- 
dostan, where, among English sportsmen, it receives 
the name of Jungle Fowl ; and specimens of it, next 
to the Bankiva cock, are much the most frequent in 
collections in this country. In size, it is nearly 
equal to an ordinary domestic fowl, the proportions 
