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Mythological galliforms

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Melek Taus
the Yazidi name for the central figure of their faith
cockatrice
thumb|right|A cockatrice overdoor at Belvedere Castle (1869) in New York's [[Central Park.]]
Alectryon
Greek mythical character
Gullinkambi
In Norse mythology, Gullinkambi (Old Norse "golden comb"), also known as Salgofnir, is a rooster who lives in Valhalla. In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Gullinkambi is one of the three roosters whose crowing is foretold to signify the beginning of the events of Ragnarök. The other two roosters are Fjalar in the wood Gálgviðr, and an unnamed soot-red rooster in Hel: {| | Benjamin Thorpe translation: Crowed o'er the Æsir Gullinkambi, which wakens heroes with the sire of hosts; but another crows beneath the earth, a soot-red cock, in the halls of Hel. | Henry Adams Bellows translation: Then to t
Rooster of Barcelos
legendary figure of Portuguese folklore
Basan
fictional bird
Hippalectryon
A hippalectryon, or hippalektryon (), is a type of fantastic hybrid creature of Ancient Greek folklore; half-horse (front) and half-rooster (hind), including the tail, wings and hind legs. Its colour varies between yellow and reddish. No myths related to it are currently known.
Víðópnir
In Norse mythology, Víðópnir () is a mythological bird inhabiting the top of the Norse world tree, Yggdrasilsometimes positioned on the brow of another cosmic bird.
Sarimanok
The Sarimanok (Pronunciation: sá·ri·ma·nók), also known as papanok in its feminine form, is a legendary bird of the Maranao people, who originate from Mindanao, an island in the Philippines, and part of Philippine mythology. It comes from the words sari and manok. Sari means "assorted" or "various", while manok originally meant "bird" as evidenced by early Spanish colonial sources, but came to mean only "chicken", which is how it is understood today (i.e. the creature is a "bird/chicken of assorted colors").