2 Observations Upon the Morphology of 
domestic races.” We now know that Forbes met with his 
death at Shonga, Africa, before he was enabled to complete 
any such piece of work ashe here points out; apiece of work, 
I may add, that no one will gainsay the necessity for, owing 
to the fact that the fowl has been utilized as sort of a stan- 
dard of the bird skeleton in text-books, works on embry- 
ology and morphology, all over the world, and, yet, so far 
as the writer knows, the type skeleton of the species has 
not been fully treated of, while, as we all know, the great- 
est amount of variation is now to be found in the skeletons 
of the domestic species. 
Huxley, too, has alluded to the desirability of having a 
complete description of the skeleton of the wild-shot Gallus 
bankiva, of India, and Darwin, in his ‘‘ Plants and Animals 
under Domestication,” very fully speaks of the expediency 
of possessing such a treatise, and points out, with great 
clearness, the wide differences that may exist in the skele- 
tons of various forms of fowls. 
With these facts before me, I some time ago placed the 
matter before Dr. Conklin, who at once interested himself 
in it, and he wrote to Dr. Richard W. Burke, of Cawnpore, 
India, for specimens, and thanks to these gentlemen, 
I have this day received from Jubbulpore, India, alcoholic 
specimens of a pair of wild-shot, adult Gallus bankiva, 
a cock and hen, so that, in the present memoir, I am 
enabled to offer an account of the anatomy of these birds, 
but, more particularly, a full description of the skeleton. 
The pair was in good condition upon coming into my 
hands, although a few bones had been broken by the shot, 
and the hen had been eviscerated before shipping. As the 
plumage of these birds is well known, I will pass no 
remarks upon it here, though I may say that I find ten 
remiges in the wing and fourteen rectrices in the tail of 
either specimen ; and the cock appeared to be about one- 
fourth larger than the hen, and the two middle feathers of 
his tail are somewhat elongated, which is not the case in 
the latter. A very diminutive lobe evidences the presence 
of a comb on the head of the hen, while both comb and 
wattles are of very small size even in the male bird ; and in 
