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A PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE RESULTS OF MR. 
HOUWINK’S EXPERIMENTS CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF 
SOME DOMESTIC ANIMALS 1) 
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by J. P. Lotsy and K. KUIPER 
IV 
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CHAPTER IV 
DETERMINATION OF THE BIRDS RECEIVED BY MR. HOUWINK AS 
BANKIVA’S 
A. The cock 201.1 & (Pl. VII fig. 2) 
In 1912 Mr. HOUWINK got from Rotterdam, a pair of birds, subse- 
quently numbered: 201.1 & and 201.2 9, said to be bankiva’s directly 
imported from , Indie”, which in Dutch may mean either British India 
or the Malay Archipelago. This pair were the ancestors of all MR. 
Houwınk’s bankiva’s. 
Information sought as to the exact region from which the bankiva’s, 
had been imported had no result, so that: 
The origin of the bird’s received by Mr. HOUWINK has remained 
unknown. 
The top of the head of the cock 201.1 3, as well as its neck and 
hackles, are dark orange red and have no median black stripe. In this 
it agrees with the description, given by BEEBE of the British Indian 
red junglefowl. This author says however that the longer hackles pale 
posteriorly into orange or orange yellow, while no such paling, or — 
at the utmost — but the faintest trace of it, is visible in the original 
cock of Mr. Houwinx. A young cock, sent by VORDERMAN in March 
