CENTURY IX. 



As for feathers, after moulting, they are young fea 

 thers, and so all one as the feathers of young birds. 

 So the beard is younger than the hair of the head, 

 and doth, for the most part, wax hoary later. Out 

 of this ground a man may devise the means of alter 

 ing the colour of birds, and the retardation of hoary 

 hairs. But of this see the fifth experiment. 



Experiment solitary touching the differences of living 



creatures, male and female. 



852. The difference between male and female, in 

 some creatures, is not to be discerned, otherwise than 

 in the parts of generation : as in horses and mares, 

 dogs and bitches, doves he and she, and others. But 

 some differ in magnitude, and that diversly ; for in 

 most the male is the greater ; as in man, pheasants, 

 peacocks, turkeys, and the like : and in some few, as 

 in hawks,, the female. Some differ in the hair and 

 feathers, both in the quantity, crispation, and colours 

 of them; as he-lions are hirsute, and have great 

 manes : the shes are smooth like cats. Bulls are 

 more crisp upon the forehead than cows ; the pea 

 cock, and pheasant-cock, and goldfinch-cock, have 

 glorious and fine colours ; the hens have not. Gene 

 rally the hes in birds have the fairest feathers. Some 

 differ in divers features : as bucks have horns, does 

 none ; rams have more wreathed horns than ewes ; 

 cocks have great combs and spurs, hens little or none ; 

 boars have great fangs ; sows much less ; the turkey- 

 cock hath great and swelling gills, the hen hath less : 

 men have generally deeper and stronger voices than 



