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Definition of Red jungle fowl
1. Noun. A jungle fowl of southeastern Asia that is considered ancestral to the domestic fowl.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Jungle Fowl
Literary usage of Red jungle fowl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indian Forester (1902)
"The cock moults his hackles after breeding like the Red Jungle fowl. The hen,
which has a very small comb and no wattles, is of a partridge brown above with ..."
2. The Large and Small Game of Bengal and the North-western Provinces of India by John Henry Baldwin (1877)
"On examining the peafowl I found it quite dead ; its head was laid clean open by
the stroke that the eagle had dealt. II.—THE red jungle fowl ..."
3. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1864)
"When taken from the jungles they are more wild and not so easily domesticated as
the Red Jungle-fowl; but they have bred in confinement with Hens of the ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"The cocks are very pugnacious and will battle to the death. The Red jungle-fowl
is found in India and most of the islands south as far as the Philippines. ..."
5. The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of India: Being Descriptions of All the Species by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1864)
"When taken from the jungles they are more wild and not so easily domesticated as
the Red Jungle-fowl; but they have bred in confinement with Hens of the ..."
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