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The female bears no marks of fuperior beauty ; being lefs than the male, 

 and merely of a pale yellowifla-brown, barred and fpotted with much deeper 

 or blacker ftripes. 



It is to China that we owe this matchlefs ornament of our European 

 colle(5lions. It is a fpecies which may be confidered as in great meafure na- 

 turalized to this country ; fince it frequently breeds here, and requires no 

 very particular care in its management j refembling in its general habits the 

 fcfl; of its erenus. 



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