Jungle Fowl has the well known English Black-breasted Red Game pattern; the Aseel is mottled. The Jungle Fowl is the foundation stock of our nervous, flighty, egg laying races the Leghorn, Minorca, Spanish, Andalusian, etc. the races that first spread over Europe, probably from the stock that was brought back from Persia by the expeditions of Alexander the Great. All of these races ordinarily carry the determiners of the Jungle type of coloration. Representatives of the Aseel type (which had long been established in Eastern Indian and China) were brought to America, becoming the ancestors of the Asiatic breeds and the fine general purpose breeds the Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Orpingtons, etc. Such do not regularly carry the Jungle type of color pattern. In one case on the contrary, namely the Buff Cochins they introduced a new kind of color which (arisen in China 1,500 years ago) has never been produced independently since. The fowl of the Aseel type are poor egg layers, but their stocky build and great size make them unrivalled as table birds."
Of all domesticated animals the dog is probably the most varied in size, in form, in color and in covering. Ranging from the Poodle and Dachshund to the Bulldog, Greyhound and Great Dane, the dog has been the companion of man in nearly every part of the world. The near relatives to the dogs are numerous and although they are truly wild many are capable of being tamed and most of them will cross with some breeds of dogs. The timber wolf of Russia, the Jackal of Europe, Asia and Africa, the coyote of North America and the dingo of Australia have all probably contributed something to present day forms. Even the fox is quite like the dog in certain respects and may be remotely connected with some of our dogs.
Catlike animals are numerous in all parts of the world and more than one species have been brought together in the making of this pet. The common wild-cat of England (Felis catus) and the Egyptian cat (Felis caffra) are probably the immediately sources of the familiar kinds of cats but the golden cat (Felis temmineki) of northern India, Tibet and the Malay Peninsula, the fishing cat (Felis viverrina) of India, the spotted leopard cat (Felis bengalensis) are near relatives which might have added something to the variety of form and color so characteristic of this animal.
The pig is a widely domesticated animal which reached its greatest development when the breeds of Europe and Asia were brought together and their qualities intermingled. Early in the 17th and 18th centuries Chinese hogs were introduced into Europe and from these sources there grew up the great breeds of Yorkshire, Berkshire, Poland-China and Duroc-Jersey. Many of these breeds have been perfected and named in this country but their foundation stock came originally from England, the Continent, and from Asia. The wild ancestors of the pig are considered to be the wild boar of Europe and Africa (Sus
