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No Ordinary Chicl{En . the Red Junglefo\\Tl BANTA'S BIRD FARM No Ordinary Chicl{en . • • We OfferAll Types Of Birds the Red Junglefo\\Tl Finch - Keets - Cockatiels ­ by Sheldon Dingle Conures - Amazons - Macaws Norco, California Love Birds - Lorys • IMPORTED BIRDS In Delacour's Pheasants of the aviaries as they will totally destroy the • SURGICALLY SEXED BIRDS World, seventeen pages are devoted to grass in smaller pens. At Cleres, France, • DOMESTIC HANDFED BABIES the junglefowls and William Beebe's Delacour was very successful keeping Pheasants contains fifteen pages on junglefowls in large enclosures along • TAME & TALKING PET BIRDS them, so you see, folks, that is no ordi­ with other pheasants such as trago­ nary chicken on the front cover. It is a pans, monals, argus, and eared broody red junglehen. The red jungle­ pheasants. The various species never fowl is probably thesingle most impor­ objected to the junglefowl's presence Write or Call for Price List tant avian species in the history ofman. and the junglefowl never interfered Delacour lists four distinct species of with the larger pheasants. junglefowls but maintains that all There is a distinct difference be­ 21712 Vlvienda Ave. domestic breeds of poultry are tween the wild junglefowl and its Grand Terrace, CA 92324 descended from the red, Gallusgallus. domesticated descendants. The dif­ (714) 824·3834 The red junglefowl subspecies range ferences in appearance and behavior from northwestern India through have been eloquently described by Assam, Burma, Malaya, east to Indo­ William Beebe who wrote, " ... the China and the extreme south ofChina. pair of birds which arrived at the Never before has such a comprehensive The wild junglefowl is an outstand­ London Zoo in 1912 were almost the encyclopedia been offered, bofh for the specialist ing game bird, wary, cunning and first real wild ]unglefowl I have ever and hobbyist. strong, according to Delacour, and its seen in captivity. Dignity was absent; YOUR LIBRARY IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT THIS BOOK. flesh is excellent for the table. Ithas not the carriage was that of an untamable much been considered as a game bird leopard; low-hung tail, slightly bent FINCHES and probably due to its close resemblance legs; heads low, always intent, listen­ to domestic barnyard fowl. The ring­ ing, watching; almost never motion­ SOFT-BILLED necked pheasants, on the other hand, less, but winding in and out of the have been established as game birds all shrubbery, striving to put every leaf BIRDS across Europe and north America. possible between themselves and the (revised edition) ]unglefowls are inhabitants of warm observer! To my mind, they fulfilled by Henry J. Bates and Robert L. Busenbark countries in Asia and the Pacific. They every ancestral requirement much live in small flocks or family groups more satisfactorily than the usual most ofthe year with one cockkeeping ]unglefowl type. It would take more several hens. All male pheasants are than one generation to tame them. protective and pugnacious being very They were wild as the pheasants ofthe inclined to do battle with an intruding Himalayas. Dignity and high-bred car­ cock. The junglefowl cocks are among riage they doubtless had, but it was the most violent and vicious of the reserved for their kind; for the combats pheasant genera and it is this trait that and the courtships oftheirown haunts, has produced the domestic fighting not struttings and steppings while cocks that are so popular in many parts mankind looked on." of the world. Even here in California Unfortunately, at present, I don't see many fighting birds are bought and much interest in the various wild sold at prices that would raise the junglefowls. They are wonderful wild eyebrows of any parrot breeder. Even birds and deserve the close attention $19.99 though cock fighting is illegal here that many pheasantbreeders are giving Order Your Copy Now From many fights occur and, regrettably, to the junglefowl's more exotic PALOS VERDES BIRD FARM INC. much money is wagered. relatives. Let's hope this situation P.O. 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