Gray Junglefowl

SCI Name:  Gallus sonneratii
Protonym:  Gallus Sonneratii Hist.Nat.Pig.Gallin. 2 p.246
Taxonomy:  Galliformes / Phasianidae / Gallus
Taxonomy Code:  grejun2
Type Locality:  India.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1813
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GALLUS
(Phasianidae; † Red Junglefowl G. gallus) L. gallus  cockerel, farmyard cock; the Red Junglefowl is the wild ancestor from which all domestic chickens are derived; "Gallus. Genus 3.  ...  **1. LE COQ ET LA POULE. Gallus versicolor. . . .GALLUS DOMESTICUS.  GALLINA DOMESTICA." (Brisson 1760): based on "Gallus", "Gallus Gallinaceus", and "Gallina" of Gessner 1555, and numerous other authors; "Gallus Brisson, Orn. 1, 1760, p. 26, 166. Type, by tautonymy, "Gallus" = Phasianus gallus Linné." (Peters, 1934, II, p. 118).
Synon. Alector, Creagrius, Gallina, Pliogallus.

gallus
L. gallus  farmyard cock, cockerel.
● "90. PHASIANUS.  ...  Gallus.  1. P. cauda compressa adscendente. Fn. svec. 165.  Gallus gallinaceus s. Gallina. Gesn. av. 395. 340. Aldr. orn. l. 14. c. 1. Will. orn. 109. t. 26. Raj. av. 51.   cristatus. β. Gallina crista in vertice plumosa desissima. Raj. av. 51.   ecaudatus. γ. Gallina cauda s. uropygio carens. Raj. av. 51.   crispus. δ. Gallina frislandica. Will. orn. 110. Gallina crispa. Raj. av. 51. Aldr. orn. l. 14. p. 329.   pusillus. ε. Gallus tibiis pennatis. Gallina bentamensis. Alb. av. 3. p. 33. t. 33. 34.  Habitat in India Orientali: Pouli candor, &c.  Gallus pugnax, superbus celsa crista, erecta falcataque cauda, vigil, plaudentibus lateribus canens gallicinia, salax 10. feminis sufficit. Gallina pulveratrix ova copiosa ponit, raro subventanea, nisi Capis associata; cibis expetita ova, caro, juscula galli senioris. Læditur baccis Sambuci; a pediculis liberatur pipere." (Linnaeus 1758) (Gallus).

sonnerati / sonneratii
Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814) French naturalist, traveller (Cacomantis (ex "Petit Coucou des Indes" of Sonnerat 1782, and "Sonnerat's Cuckow" of Latham 1787), syn. Charadrius mongolus, Chloropsis, syn. Cracticus cassicus, syn. Dinopium psarodes, syn. Eupoda mongolus, Gallus, syn. Ninox superciliaris, syn. Psittacula eupatria (ex “Perruche à collier de l’isle de Luçon” of Sonnerat 1776, and “Blue-collared Parrot” of Latham 1781)).