The Red Jungle Fowl

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The wild progenitor of all domestic fowl — the Red Jungle Fowl (Gallus gallus) — drawn by Audubon from life at the Zoological Society of London’s menagerie in 1827. Audubon’s plate depicts the cock in full moult, with the long, sweeping sickle feathers of the wild form clearly distinguished from the more compact plumage of the domestic strains.

Plate VI — Thailändische Kämpfer

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date: 1907-01-01

A hand-coloured engraving from Johann Houdry’s Die Kämpfhühner (The Fighting Fowl, 1907), depicting a Thai Game cock in the characteristic upright stance and sparse, close-fitting plumage of the Siamese fighting strains.

Engraving on The Gamecock Codex

The Red Jungle Fowl

Plate VI — Thailändische Kämpfer