402 
ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
Sumatra and Southern Asia— the jungle fowl of the continent of India, 
may also lay claim to being the progenitors of our domestic fowls, as 
well as the species named after the egotistio Sonnerat. In India our 
farm fowls are believed to have sprung from the jungle cock and wild 
species of Malay and Chittagouey, 
GALLCS 80.NNERATIL 
Our Bantams are undoubtedly sprung from the Bankiva jungle fowl. 
Our large Asiatic from the great Malay and Chittagong races through 
Ion" generations of breeding and selection in China. Whatever the races 
from whence they sprung, the wild types are now very scarce and di 
cult to find, while domestic fowls, in their afmost infinite varieties, aie 
found not only in every farm-yard and village lot, but are bred exten- 
sively and successfully in our largest cities. 
But wild fowls, of the genus Gallus, are also natives of the Brazilian 
forests of America. Oliver de Serres writes of them as follows : 
“In traveling over the gloomy and inextricable forests of Guiana, when 
the dawn of day began to appear, amidst the immense forests of lofty 
trees which fall under the stroke of time only, I often heard a crowi 0 
