jungle-fowl

I also obtained here a specimen of the rare green jungle-fowl (Gallus furcatus), whose back and neck are beautifully scaled with bronzy feathers, and whose smooth-edged oval comb is of a violet purple colour, changing to green at the base.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Thus, the impossibility of the Ethiopian changing his skin or the leopard his spots is represented by “Though you may feed a jungle-fowl off a gold plate, it will make for the jungle all the same.”

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Wild pigs of large size were very plentiful and he generally got one or two a week, besides deer occasionally, and abundance of jungle-fowl, hornbills, and great fruit pigeons.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

We had spiced hump and jungle-fowl and a Normandy cheese, everybody will understand that; but how shall I make plain with what exultation and simplicity we ate and drank, how the four candid selves of us sat around the table in a cloud of tobacco and cheered each other on, Armour always far in front turning handsprings as he went.

The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

When they had exhausted the food that they had brought with them and failed to procure any more from their Secret Service agents in the villages, Tashi gathered bananas, dug up edible tubers like the _charpattia_ or _charlong_, and snared jungle-fowl and Monal pheasants.

The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly

The birds and the jungle-fowl flew up in the tree; but the deer and the other animals waited clown on the ground.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

So that day he went out and made about thirty traps, of sticks with nooses attached, to snare jungle-fowl.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

The marsh and jungle swarmed with peacocks, jungle-fowl, and wild-fowl of all sorts, affording glorious sport; and, besides the smaller kinds of deer, several specimens occurred of a magnificent species of stag with twelve-tyned horns, called _baru-singa_ -- apparently allied to the _sambur_ and _rusa_ of the Dekkan.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

One day he went out into the woods to snare jungle-fowl, and he slept in the woods all night.

Philippine Folk-Tales Fletcher Gardner

"No; those are jungle-fowl," whispered the Political Officer.

The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly