CHAPTER XXVI. 



POULTRY AND GAME BIRDS. 



THE next great Order of birds, of which the domestic 

 moorghee is for ever the type, is by no means so 

 homogeneous as the Pigeons. Indeed, the variety 

 of forms and fashions in which it exhibits itself has 



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Bush Quails. 



no parallel except among fashionable womankind. 

 Some of the Pheasants have tails twice as long as 

 their bodies ; the Quail has a tail, but you must 

 search for it if you wish to see it ; the Peacock has an 

 average tail, but the feathers of the back above it are 

 developed into a train four feet long. Head-dresses 

 are as various, The Peacock wears a corona of 



