Hkekiiino I’kn Avr.KsnuiiY Ducks. 
From lire English shimltml of waterl'owt 
domestic tribe. Damphier had previously found wild cocks in the islands 
of the Indian Archipelago, that are now known to nearly approximate 
ours. Ike B?.ok!ya species in Java, and tho Kulrn or gigautic cock oi 
POULTRY, TTTSTQRY, ETO. 401 
Of the progenitors of barn-yard fowls (Gallus), there are several wild 
species. Among these may be mentioned the Sonnerat fowl, discovered 
by the naturalist of that name iu the Ghautes, which separates Malabar 
from Coramandel, a thoroughly wild species never yet tamed. Sonnerat 
was probably mistaken in supposing they were the Drimitive type of our 
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