Gallus

(gallus.) [L., a cock.] (Zool.) A gen. of birds, fam. Phasianide, comprising our domestic varieties of the cock kind, and the Jungle Fowl of India. The Domestic Cock, G. domestic us, is too well known to need description. This bird has been in the po e ion of man from the earliest times, and the varieties are now almost endle . They have all sprung from the Jungle Fowls of India, of which there are many varieties, all of which bear great resemblance to our domestic varieties. Gallus,CAIUSSULPICIUS,(gal'lus,) the earliest of Roman 2Z astronomers, was chosen consul 166 B. C. On the eve of the battle of Pydna, 168, an eclipse of the moon occurred according as he had predicted, which circumstance greatly tended to his reputation.-G. (CAIUS VIBIUS TREBONIANUS), B. about 205 A. D., s. the emperor Decius in 251, and by purchasing a peace with the Goths brought himself into popular odium. In 253, he was murdered by his own soldiers. Galt, (gault,) in Canada, p. Ontario, a town of Waterloo co., on Grand River, 25 m. N.W. of Hamilton. Pop. 6,000. [s. 393]