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III.—On the Temperature of the Common Fowl (Gallus domesticus)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

John Davy
Affiliation:
Lond. and Edin.

Extract

During the last three years I have made a large number of observations on the temperature of the common fowl under different circumstances, the results of which I now beg leave to submit to the Society, with the hope that they may be considered not altogether uninteresting to the physiologist.

The fowls tried were chiefly of the pure Dorking breed. At the time they appeared to be healthy, and all in good condition. They had all the run of a field adjoining the poultry yard.

In all the trials the same thermometer was used,—each degree of which, that of Fahrenheit, was divided into ten parts, and had been warranted correct by the makers after comparison with a standard.

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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1868

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References

page 120 note * Thermometer in shade, 81°.

page 120 note † Moulting.

page 122 note * See Physiological Researches (1863), p. 85.