HOUWINK’S EXPER. CONC. THE ORIGIN OF SOME DOMESTIC ANIMALS ES 
these dark-coloured birds to be the results of such intercourse, particu- 
larly as many of them, though very unlike the typical G. ferrugineus, are 
not like one another, varying much in the intensity of their colouring’. 
Weight 1 Ib. 12 ozs to 2 Ibs. 5 ozs. 
Lenght 630 to 700 mm. ; Culmen from nostril 16, wing 235; tail 350; 
tarsus 77 ; middle toe and claw 55. Spurs averaging 33 mm., sharp, slen- 
der and much curved. 
Of Javanese bankiva’s the following description is found in VORDER- 
MAN, Salakvogels, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederl. Indié XLV, 
p. 405. It refers to a cock, wounded by a shot on the Salak near Doerén- 
gedeh on Oct. 3d 1882, whose central tailfeathers were lost in catching 
it. We translate from the Dutch: N 
„The head is hardly distinguishable from that of a domestic cock. A 
fine comb reaches until past the back of the head, at some places the 
comb overhangs by its own weight. Comb and both wattles dark red, 
and rough to the touch on account of small wartlike spots. The red co- 
lor of the comb passes backwards into a blue-red [perhaps this woun- 
ded cock was cyanotic] +). The upper mandible has the color of dark 
horn, the lower one whitish. Iris orange. The whole face is naked and of 
the same color as the comb and the wattles, behind the cheeks the na- 
ked skin has many transverse folds. The external earopening is pro- 
tected by a bunch of parallel small feathers. On the crown a few upright 
light horse-brown feathers. 
Feathers on the occiput dark-sepia. Neck and throat-feathers color 
of burned sienna, ending into a kind of collar and becoming orange, 
ventrally reaching over the throat and there covering the black ventral 
side. Mantle- and back-feathers of a beautiful glossy maroonbrown, to- 
wards the tail and the sides the feathers become elongated lancet-sha- 
ped and end in clear terra-sienna tints. 
Breast, shins and lower leg feathers dullblack. Tailfeathers, so far as 
still present, black with greenish gloss. 
Shoulderfeathers black. The small wing coverts, have just as the 
mantle a green metallish tint. Primaries dullblack, the four outer ones 
possessing a narrow horsebrown seam. The most outwardly lying 
feather of the alula, otherwise black, also has such a brown seam. 
1) remark between square brackets added by us. 
