CLEANLINESS. 



tails (Gallus ecaudatus, TEMMINCK), originally it 

 would appear from Ceylon *, the tail, the rump, and 

 the gland are all wanting, the part where these grow 

 in other species being depressed and smooth 



Rumkin or Tail-less Cock. 



Were an attempt made to assign a reason why 

 these Ceylonese fowls have no unctuous gland on 

 the rump, a mistake might as readily be committed 

 as has, it would appear, been done in the theory 

 framed to account for the use of the gland in birds 

 which possess it. All the works of nature being 

 lavishly filled with wonders, fitted to raise most just 

 admiration of the Creator, those who, with very 

 laudable intentions, undertake to exhibit these won- 



* Temminck, Hist, des Pig, et Gall. ii. 267. 



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