The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-08
TIE sPRRCHEs OF FOWLS.
Registering the Remarks ofthe Rooster
and His Loquecious Harem.

and His Loqueciops Harem.
From the Youths Companion.
After the language of crows, quail and
monkeys, the language Of hens has come
forward as a subject for scientific study
with the photograph. A scientific French
man, NJ. Prevot du Haudray, has become
convinced that barnyard fowl have a real
language, and that the curious sounds which
they are continually uttering are perfectly
understood by one another.
de has for some time kept phonograph
hung up In coop Ia which several cocks,
mems and chickens are confined He has
caused, as it were, the fowls to talk about
all sorts OF things by agitating them in one
way and another, by letting them be-
com hungry and then feeding certain
OF them, while the others complain, u and
In many ways has Induced them to utter
all the sounds OF which they seem capable.
These sounds the photograph has faith
fully recorded and NJ. Prevot du Haudray
declares himself able to demonstrate from
them that the chickens have a means Of
communication which may properly be
called a language.
Persons who have observed the habits Of
poultry will not find it difficult to believe
that they converse a great deal together,
while the old hens are undoubtedly very
AAuSh BAfou W IdAAAuR 10 bu6UuS6iV6S. III
will be interesting TO observe, for instance,
when the French student Of the subject has
completed his report, exactly what q hen
means when she goes around the yard ex-
claiming at the top OF her voice: "Kra- a-e-
ah-krah-krah-krah-krah! The signif-
canoe OF this speech has puzzled many OBJ
servers
M. Prevot du Haudray's phonograph
may also settle the vexed question of what
nNfUN oil ,aaI
rooster when he crows. 1t Is traditional
among English speaking people that the
COCK says "Cook-a-doodle-doo But a
Frenchman represents the sound-which
by the way, he calls the cocks Singing
with the syllables co-orico.
To the Germans the rooster seems to say
kiktrlki-the is in this word having the
sound of the English ee. The Italians rep
resent the sound by still another and differ
ent combination of sylables. Every nation,
no doubt, has Its own idea of the way to
represent this familiar remark of chanti-
cleer
But it is hard to see how there can be any
variance in the representation of the cack-
ling Of a hen after she has laid an egg. She
articulates, with great plainness and posi-
tiveness. the syllables, "Cu- cut-cut~cut-ca..
dah-cutm
Recently there was a very interesting
GUM. The poultry raisers of the vicinity
OF Liege are such admirers of tho music
which their ROSTERS furnish that they de-
cided to hold q competition at Liege In or
der to prove definitely whose rooster was
the champion Grower
All the birds entered In this competition
and there was great number-were
placed in cages, one in each cage, with a
trustworthy man in front of each to record
the crowings. The contest lasted one hour
and the cock which crowed the greast num-
Der Of times in that period received 7alu-
able prize.
The winner Of the prize crowed 1874 times
or more than twice a minute ANY one
who has seen young rooster mount barn
yard fence and crow until the housewife
comes out and throws a milk pan at him
will not be inclined to impeach the accuracy
OF this count, unless he thinks it is an under
statement It is possible that the Lioge
cocks were embarrassed by the strange sur
roundings, and did not do themselves JUS
tice.