Identifier: indiansportingbi00finn (find matches)
Title: Indian sporting birds
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Finn, Frank, 1868-1932 Hume, Allan Octavian, 1829-1912 Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson, 1841-
Subjects: Birds -- India Game and game-birds -- India
Publisher: London : Francis Edwards
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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k hybrid birds crow was also distinct, in four syllables, cock-a-doo-doo. In general appearance he was very like amongrel reddish bantam, but had the breast reddish as wellas the back, and no grey anywhere, this being, so to speak, over-laid with orange-red. Ceylon Junglc-fow^l. Gallus lafayettii.^ Well kiikula, Cingalese. Even if it were not confined to Ceylon, and the only species ofjungle-fowl found in that island, there would be no difficulty indistinguishing the Ceylon jungle-fowl. The cocks plumage, red below as well as above, and with thesame narrow feathers, glassy-lustred everywhere, is quite distinctfrom that of either of the mainland species, to say nothing of theyellow patch in the middle of the red of his comb. The hen, like the cock, shows her distinction from the redjungle-fowl of the north in her under plumage chiefly ; this,instead of the fawn-colour found in the hen of the red jungle-fowl, is black-and-white, not in the form of white centres and * stanletji on plate.
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CALLUS STANLEYl CEYLON JUNGLE-FOWL 177 black edcres to the feathers as in the hen grey jungle-fowl, butirregularly mottled and intermixed with brown. Her comb isparticularly small even for a wild hens, and her face featheredlike a partridges, not bare as in the hen of the mainland jungle-fowl. Young cocks can be distinguished from hens by being morereddish on the brown upper parts and having only black andi)rown below, with no white. The voice of this jungle-fowl is quite as distinct from thatof the two mainland birds as his plumage is, if the wordsGeorge Joyce or John Joyce, the renderings given of it,are at all correct. A bird in the London Zoo, believed to bea hybrid Ceylon common fowl, crowed in three syllables cock-a-doo. Hybrids between the jungle-fowl and tame poultry are liableto occur, as the wild bird sometimes crosses with village hens,being able to overcome their consorts ; so the characteristicpoints of yellow-patched comb and glazed lower plumage shouldbe borne in mind i

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