90 LOTSY AND KUIPER, A PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 
see that in the majority of these kekos the plumage reverts to the gallus 
type. The hackles become long and loose much or all of the violet. While 
the median wattle may be well developped in life, its two dermal walls 
are attached so loosely that after death it splits, and the throat shows 
merely a wrinkled skin, with no hint of the wattle, owing to the non- 
adhesion of the two walls. | 
The crow in this generation usually returns to the three-or four- 
syllabled call of the domestic rooster. To BEEBE was given a small, 
white kekok whose pedigree was. 
Gallus varius & Cream Malay game © 
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Cream Bekisar & White Japanese Bantam 2 
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White kekok ¢ 


This bird was especially interesting as regards its wattles and its 
crow. Across the front of its chin and neck was a flap of skin on which 
were strung five structures, the median wattle, outside of which were 
two large gular wattles, while near the outer ends of the flap were the 
well-developed sub-auricular wattles. The crow was quite like the 
challenge of the wild Javan bird — an abrupt three-syllabled call — 
but at the end the beak of the bird remained open, and it strained ludi- 
crously forward in a final silent exhalation, as if giving a long drawn- 
out finale to the last syllable. Its audible crow was that of varius; the 
duration of posture and effort was clearly that of gallus ! The kekoks 
says BEEBE cannot be classified, and some individuals which I have 
seen vary even assymetrically, having partly colored Ov us 
feathers cropping out here and there. 
(To be continued) 
