I know that the Gallus bankiva frequents drier and more open situations than the pea-hen of Java, which is found among grassy and leafy vegetation, corresponding with the colours of the two.
I come up to London to read on Thursday a short paper at the Linnean Society.
The elevation of the land is perhaps more carefully treated than any other subject, but it cannot, of course, be called new.
Most beautiful cross-breeds between the Bankiva jungle-fowl and Bantam may be seen in the gardens of the Zoological Society.
That the Bankiva jungle-fowl of Java, or its larger continental variety, if it be not a distinct species (and of which Sir W.
FROM the Bankiva fowl nearly all the various kinds of fowls found in British poultry-yards are said to have sprung.
For the eggs of Gallus bankiva see Blyth in 'Annals and Mag.
Birds offer still better evidence of increased fertility from domestication: the hen of the wild Gallus bankiva lays from six to ten eggs, a number which would be thought nothing of with the domestic hen.
No one has compared, for instance, the fertility of Gallus bankiva and of the domesticated fowl, when crossed with a distinct species of Gallus or Phasianus; and the experiment would in all cases be surrounded by many difficulties.
This may be in part explained by direct reversion to the parent-form, the Bankiva hen; for this bird has all its upper plumage finely mottled with dark and rufous brown, with the mottling partially and obscurely arranged in transverse lines.
Judging from the habits of our European gallinaceous birds, Gallus bankiva in its native haunts would use its legs and wings more than do our domestic fowls, which rarely fly except to their roosts.
The original of the Bantam is, as has been already remarked, the Bankiva fowl.
The Bankiva fowl is a native of Java, and is characterized by a red indented comb, red wattles, and ashy-gray legs and feet.
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