Show DIRECT ANCESTOR OF HEN From the Jungle Fowl Are Descended the Feathered Creatures of the Barnyard of Today Although there were no houses within with with- in n half a mile of the camp we were surprised on our first night to hear cocks crowing In the Jungle province tropical China Chinn Roy Chapman Chapman Chap Chap- man Andrews writes In Harpers Harper's Magazine Mag Mag- azine The note was like that of the ordinary barn barnyard ard fowl except that It ended somewhat t more abruptly The next morning we discovered Chanticleer Chanti Chantl cleer and nIl all his harem In a deserted rice field und and he lie flew fiew toward the jungle Jungle Jun jun- gle le In a Hash of red and gold goM I dropped him and one of his hens with a n right an un left of sixes and found that they were Jungle fowl Gallus Gallus Gal Gal- lus Ius gallus In full plumage The cock was a splendid bird The long neck feathers hackles spread over his back and und wings like a u shimmering golden mantle but were hardly more beautiful than the black of or his under parts and und green glossed tall tail Picture to yourself a breasted black red game gamecock gamecock gamecock cock and andou you ou will have him In all his glory except that his tail tall Is drooping and he Is more In his general bearing The female was a trim little bird with a lilac sheen to her brown feathers and looked exactly exactly exactly exact exact- ly like a a well kept game bantam hen The Jungle fowl Is the direct ancestor ancestor ances ances- tor of our balD barnyard hens and roost roosters rs which were probably first domesticated ed in and a adjacent countries long Jong before the dawn of authentic history According to tradition the Chinese received their poultry from the West about 1400 B B. B C C. and they are figured In Babylon cylinders between between be be- tween the tle sixth and seventh centuries B. B C. C Although they were probably Introduced In Greece through Persia there Is no direct evidence as to howand howand how howand and when they reached Europe |