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Genus LI. PHEASANT. 



N" II. Impeyan Ph. N" 13. African Ph. 



12. Coloured Ph. 



Domeftic Cock, Gen. Syn, iv. p. 700. i • 



DOMESTIC C. 



* I'HE changes in the plumage o^ hen birds has been mentioned 

 in the Synopjis ; but 1 find that the circumftance does not 

 happen merely in tho^e females which have done laying or fitting. 

 Mr. L. Porter informs me, that he once had a black Came Heny 

 which one year grew fpotted, and the following year quite white. 

 Spurs were obferved to grow on her legs, and fhe crowed at inter- 

 vals like a Cock. Notwithftanding this, fhe laid eggs and bred 

 for fonie years after. As to age, the common poultry would, no 

 doubt, if permitted, live a long while. A Hen was living, at a 

 place called Highherries, in Cumberland^ in 1777, then thirty years 

 old, full in feather, and very fat ; but had not laid any eggs for fix 

 or feven years pad *. 



The Darking fowls are obferved to be much larger than thofe 

 from other places in England, being frequently known to weigh. 

 from feven to eight pounds when plucked, though they will now 

 and then weigh much beyond this. A friend of mine fent a cargo 

 of thefe fowls into Scotland^, one of the Cocks of which weighed 

 ncitdy fourteen pounds. 



• Mr. ^unjlall. 



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