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The Wikipedia article on the chicken says that it "... is believed to be descended from the wild Asian Red Junglefowl, Gallus gallus." It seems like there ought to be mention of that on this page. I found it confusing some time back when I was trying to track down the taxonomy of the domestic chicken, and, while the chicken article itself gave the bird's taxonomy, none of the groupings to which it belonged mentioned the chicken at all. However, I defer to the judgement of those who know more about birds than I do.--64.81.243.120 07:32, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The info is, and was on Red Junglefowl and Junglefowl, although I've moved it to a more prominent position in the latter article. jimfbleak 07:39, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
About the domestic chicken, there are some that consider it its own species because they claim that another species may have been involved. Frankyboy5 23:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Reply
I have a few reasons to doubt it:
I agree because they don't look like pheasants at all.
This site claims that they aren't related [1] and that the bird, as well as the argus pheasants and their allies shall be classified as another family. This site also claims that there is more than one species of Green Peafowl, Pavo muticus. Additionally, that site could be related to this gallery [2], which also tells of more than one species of green peafowl. This site shows actual comparisons to other sub/species of dragonbirds and says that some captive birds are not Pavo muticus muticus (they call it P. m. javanensis) as many of us know them but P. muticus muticus which they say is different and is called the Pahang or Malay Dragonbird which they say is extinct in the wild. The site even says that Jean Théodore Delacour thought the species were identical but then admitted he had too little skins to verify. They claim the species is different and that genetic work is underway.
Unfortunately, there is no reliable source available. Only these two sites have told anything about these topics. Can anyone find another site that agrees?????? Frankyboy5 23:15, 23 October 2006 (UTC)Reply
There needs to be genetic work on this, some birds look like they are related but are completely unrelated. Frankyboy5 00:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)Reply
I don't think that the Blackbird anything looks like the Red-Winged Blackbird, it looks a bit like a thrush and that's why it was classified in that family and that can be very misleading as I read a book that showed how Meadowlarks look like some other unrelated bird. Frankyboy5 01:14, 29 October 2006 (UTC)Reply
Well, someone needs to do genetic work before the Javan, Pahang, Deqen, Arakan Spicifer, Southern Spicifer, Kunming Imperator, Tonkin Imperator and Annametic Dragonbirds become extinct!!!!!!!!! Quickly!!!!!!!!! I think there might be 5 species and that Peafowl and their allies aren't related to pheasants. Frankyboy5 23:47, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply
"A peafowl can't be a pheasant because it existed well before the first pheasant", says Kermit Blackwood, one of the few people who believe that the Green Peafowl is six species. Frankyboy5 05:15, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Reply
See this [3]. However, it's in a forum.Frankyboy5 17:38, 14 January 2007 (UTC)Reply
I tagged this as a {{galliformes-stub}}, User:Jimfbleak untagged it. So now I've tagged it as a {{livestock-stub}}. It currently comprises some 8 sentences - mostly simple sentences, a list of genera, and a {{taxobox}}.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 12:42, 16 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
Now that this family article is devided into subfamilies and species lists are in them, it seems that some species are missing. For example Gallus and Peafowl don't get a mention in subfamily articles. What is their place?