資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other
palms, very difficult to penetrate. -- Balfour
(Cyc. of
India).
{Jungle bear} (Zo["o]l.), the aswail or sloth bear.
{Jungle cat} (Zo["o]l.), the chaus.
{Jungle cock} (Zo["o]l.), the male of a jungle fowl.
{Jungle fowl}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any wild species of the genus {Gallus}, of which several
species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the
fork-tailed jungle fowl ({G. varius}) of Java, {G.
Stanleyi} of Ceylon, and {G. Bankiva} of India.
Note: The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is
supposed to be one of the original species from which
the domestic fowl was derived.
(b) An Australian grallatorial bird ({Megapodius tumulus})
which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the
latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter,
where they are hatched by the heat produced by
decomposition.