Show DIRECT ANCESTOR OF HEN From the the Jungle Fowl Are Descended Descend the Feathered Creatures of the Barnyard of Today Although there were no houses within withIn with with- in ill half balf a mile mUe of the camp we were surprised on our first night to hear cocks crowing in the jungle Yuma province tropical China Roy Chapman Chapman Chap Chap- man Andrews writes in Harpers Harper's Mag Mag- azine The note was like that of the ordinary barnyard fowl except that It It ended somewhat more abruptly Thel next morning we discovered Chantl- Chantl Chanty cleer clear and all his harem in a deserted I rice field and amI he be flew Hew toward vard the Jungle jungle jun Jun- l gle in a flash ash of at red and gold I dropped him and one of his hen hens with a right anC and left of at sixes and found that t they e were jungle fowl Gal f In lua lus gallus in full tuB plumage The cock was n a splendid bird The long neck h t feathers n rs lla hackles spread over his back and wings like a shimmering golden mantle manUe but were hardly more mON beautiful than the black of his under parts and green glossed tall tail Picture re to yourself a breasted black red game gamecock gamecock cock and you ou will have him In all his ls glory except that his tall Is drooping drooping- and he Is more In hiS general bearing The female was a n trim little bird with a lilac sheen to to- her brown feathers and looked exactly exact i ly like Uke a well kept game bantam hen The Jungle fowl Is the direct ances ancestor ancestor I tor of ot our barnyard hens liens and roosters which were probably first domesticate domesticated ed d In Burin and adjacent countries countries' long Jong before betor the dawn of oC authentic history According to tradition them the Chinese received their poultry from the West about 1400 11 B n. c. c and they are figured in Babylon cylinders bed be be- tween the sixth and seventh centuries B B. C. C Although they were probably Introduced in Greece through Persia there Is no direct evidence as to how and when they reached Europe |