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¹ This tale, here very ill told, is often found. See Jātaka, No. 386; Chavannes, *Actes du XIV. Congr. intern. des orientalistes* (1905), Cinqu. sect., p. 125 (No. xviii) = No. cxii in his *Cinq cents contes*, and cp. Rosen, *Tutinameh*, ii, 236 ff.; Kuhn, *Barlaam u. Josaphat*, p. 81; Jacobs, *Barlaam u. Josaphat*, cxxiii; Benfey, *Orient u. Occident*, ii, 133; *Archiv f. slav. Philologie*, vii, 318, 515; Schreck, *Finnische Märchen*, 44 ff.; *Zeitschr. d. Ver. f. Volksk.*, Bd. 19, p. 298; Hertel, *Das Pañcatantra*, p. 284 f. These Finnish, Serbian, Tartar, and Georgian versions all have the cock as the pasha of hens ruling his regiment of wives, the cock whose superiority to the husband is so admired by Reinmar von Zweter in his well-known poem. He is seen in the same light in Chauvin, v, 180 (from the 1001 Nights). There is a monograph on the tale: A. Aarne, *Der tiersprachenkundige Mann und seine neugierige Frau*, No. 15 of the "F.F. Communications" ed. for the Folklore Fellows by J. Bolte, K. Krohn, A. Olrik, C. W. von Sydow.