Plate VI — Thailändische Kämpfer

date: 1907-01-01

A hand-coloured engraving from Johann Houdry’s Die Kämpfhühner (The Fighting Fowl, 1907), depicting a Thai Game cock in the characteristic upright stance and sparse, close-fitting plumage of the Siamese fighting strains.

Houdry’s monograph is the most comprehensive early European treatise on the Asiatic gamefowl, covering the Asil, the Shamo, the Malay, the Thai, and several other strains in extensive text and twelve hand-coloured plates. The volume is now in the public domain and remains in print in facsimile editions.