Identifier: reptilesbirds00figu (find matches)
Title: Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894 Gillmore, Parker
Subjects: Reptiles Birds
Publisher: London : Cassell & Co.

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XX.-Ar^is. THE DOMESTIC FOWL. 405 above-mentioned, for the crest, gills, epidermis, periosteum, andfeathers of this species are black, but the flesh is white. The NegroCock, very largely spread over Belgium and Germany, still lives infreedom in the Indies. Although to the Bankiva race alone someattribute the honour of being progenitors to our domestic stock, I
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-Domestic Fowls. should be inclined to believe that in accordance with their differentappearances, they have more or less of the blood of the races pre-viously enumerated in their veins. The male of the domestic race is thick-set and massive, but with-out heaviness. His upright and bold walk denotes pride. Withoutbeing an habitual runner, he moves with rapidity, but when driven tofly it is with difficulty he raises himself from the ground, as if Naturehad destined him to live always by the side of man, attached to the 406 REPTILES AND BIRDS. earth which feeds them both. The Cock is a perfect model of asultan; he attaches an entire seraglio to his train. His love is acmious mixture of delicate attentions and revolting brutalities. Seehim walking in the midst of his companions, he assumes an air atonce proud and defiant. He directs his wives, protects them, watchesthem with restless tenderness, and if he finds a savoury morsel heunselfishly ofters it to them. When the time for feeding c

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