grey junglefowl

English

grey junglefowl (female)

Noun

grey junglefowl (plural grey junglefowl or grey junglefowls)

1. A species of fowl, Gallus sonneratii, endemic to India.
   • 2016 August 24, Hanneke Meijer, “How did the chicken, a shy, flight-impaired forest bird, migrate around the globe?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Moreover, […] the gene for yellow legs, an^[sic] ubiquitous characteristic of domesticated chickens, can be traced back to the closely related grey junglefowl (Gallus sonneratii) (Eriksson et al., 2008) rather than the red junglefowl.

References

• grey junglefowl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gallus sonneratii on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gallus sonneratii on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons