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sonnerat’s wild cock. 
whole with very brilliant metallic reflections. The 
bill, legs, and feet, are yellow. 
The hen is about a third less than the cock, with- 
out comb or wattles. The plumage has no trace of 
the horny structure adorning the other sex. The up- 
per parts of it are of a uniform brown : the feathers on 
the neck edged with a dark margin, upon the back 
and wing-coverts with a pale streak along the shaft, 
and on the wings, tail coverts and tail, waved and 
mottled with darker markings. The throat and fore 
part of the neck is white, and on the rest of the 
lower parts each feather is of a greyish-white, edged 
with dark brown ; towards the vent the brown pre- 
dominates. The legs and feet are bluish-grey. 
Dr Latham observes that this species is by far the 
boldest and strongest in proportion to its size, and 
in Indostan is anxiously sought after by the cock- 
fighters, seldom failing to secure the victory over 
the larger game cocks. 
We shall now proceed to the Pheasants, forming 
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