Domestic and wild fowl are generally abundant.
When fully dilated, the pupil is round in all birds; when contracted it is usually round, rarely oval as in the fowl.
The red jungle fowl (Gallus ferrugineus), supposed to be the ancestor of our own poultry, is not good eating; and the same may be said of the peacock (Pavo cristatus), except when young.
The fowl possesses all five ossifications at birth, and for a long while the middle piece forming the keel is by far the largest.
Lelewel, the Polish historian, considers that it is merely a translation into Latin of some such name as Kura, signifying "a fowl."