Gallus Bankiva of India. 3 
him only is an inconspicuous conical spur, to be found on 
either tarsus at the most usual site.* 
In general form they agree quite closely with small speci- 
mens of the best examples of our domestic game fowls, 
and, upon carefully plucking the cock bird, I find its ptery- 
losis corresponds, in all essential particulars, with the 
pterylosis of G. bankiva, as drawn for us by Nitzsch, 
although I must believe, from the form of the comb and 
wattles, in this eminent anatomist’s figures, he had before 
him a specimen of the barn-yard fowl.+ 
A circlet of dense, fine feathers, completely surround the 
aural aperture, and the uropygial papillais tufted. In both 
sexes, the alula supports four flight feathers, the outer one 
being much the longest, and the others graduated to a very 
small inner one. Cutting down upon the carotids, I find 
them double, as already stated to be the case by Garrod; and 
further, I am enabled to verify that talented anatomist’s 
account of the form of the trachea and syrinx in Gallus 
bankiva, for I carefully removed it in the cock bird, and 
compared it with his excellent figures. +t 
Presenting nothing especially noteworthy, the average- 
sized, median and single crop, upon being opened was 
found to contain several varieties of small seeds, numerous 
beetles, pupze, buds, and two or three land shells (Helix ? ). 
The lower opening of this crop is in contact with the syrinx 
and both of these structures are deep situated in the 
chest. 
*TIn this connection, I am permitted to quote from a very interesting letter 
written by Dr. Burke to Dr. Conklin, dated Jubbulpore, India, 14 March, 1888, 
wherein the former says that *‘the term ‘ wild fowl’ in India and England, 
is applied to birds of the Anseride, Tadomine and Anatine families, and not 
the jungle fowl as believed by some persons. In my opinion, the original 
stock of the domestic fowl comes from the jungle fowl, as jungle fowl can be 
so easily tamed, especially when the eggs have been hatched under a domestic 
hen. The jungle fowl will breed in captivity, and we know of a hybrid 
between it and the Gallophasis albocristatus, having the head, breast and back 
of the pheasant and tail of the jungle cock, with red feathers and no crest.”’ 
R..W.S, 
+ ‘* Pterylography.” (Eng. trans., 1867) Taf. VII., Figs. 5 and 6. 
tGarrop, A. H. Coll. Sci. Mem., Lond., 1881, pp. 174 and 501, Figs, 82, 
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