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There are two wattles under the base of the bill, and a smaller pendulous flap 
under each ear ; in the female both comb and wattles are rudimentary. The bill 
does not alter in domestication. Legs stout, rather lengthened, with a single row 
of scales in front, and a double row behind, the sides of leg being reticulated. 
Toes rather short, and webbed to nearly their first joints ; a large spur on the 
inner side of the shank, about three-quarters of an inch above the thumb, 
attaining a length of one inch and a half in old birds. The wings are short and 
bowed ; the quill-feathers suddenly narrowed from near their bases ; the fifth and 
sixth i^rimaries are the longest ; the secondaries very little shorter. The tail is 
composed of fourteen feathers, shaped as in the barn-door cock, but not held so 
vertically. 
In the cock, the iris is orange ; the bill, horn colour ; legs, blackish-lead 
colour, with a slight green tinge ; the face, comb, wattles, and throat, fleshy 
carmine ; neck and head feathers, bright orange, pale and golden where flowing 
over the back ; the feathers at bottom of neck, black at the bases ; back, 
rich deep vinous rust colour ; lower back and upper tail-coverts, fiery orange, 
the latter golden-tipped ; tail and its longest upper coverts, or sickle-feathers, 
black, glossed with green ; wing-coverts like those of the back, but the two-last 
rows black, glossed with green ; the secondaries, chestnut on the outerweb, and 
dusky within ; the primaries dusky ; all the lower parts black ; the ear-coverts 
are white in the Bengal birds and orange rusty in the Burmese and Malayan 
varieties. 
The hen has the skin of the face a paler red than in the male ; legs, livid 
horn colour ; crown, ear-coverts, and throat, vinous rusty ; rest of neck, golden 
tawny ; each hackle is centered with brownish-black, and the larger ones are shafted 
with tawny colour within the black. All the upper parts are full burnt-umber brown, 
the feathers vermiculated and centered sepia, with pale tawny shafts ; the side tail- 
feathers are plain sepia, as are the inner webs of all the remiges ; all under 
parts vinous reddish-brown, the shafts pale ; primaries and their coverts, plain 
sepia, with the outer margins ashy. 
The breast and under parts of the young cock-birds are much broken up with 
rusty- coloured feathers, and in the first moult both sexes are similarly coloured 
mottled brown, with dusky wings and tail ; when first hatched, the chicks are 
covered with cream-coloured down, and have sepia-coloured bands along centre of 
head and through the eyes. 
Every poultry fancier will at once recognize the fact that of all «ur domesticated 
varieties, the breed which most closely resembles the Jungle cock in colour, form, 
and carriage, is the Black-breasted Bed Game. If the tail of a small Game cock of 
this variety were depressed so as to be carried horizontally, it would be difficult to 
distinguish the bird, provided it had not been dubbed, from the descendants of its 
wild progenitors, and now roaming at large in the Indian jungle. 
The Jungle fowl is found all over Continental India wherever jungle exists — to 
the westv/ard, as far south as the Vindhian range and the Kaj-peepla Hills ; to the 
