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care in the bringing up, though in fome feafons may be 

 railed without difficulty. They are fond of having a large range j 

 but if there is much fhelter, the hen will often fecrete a neft, 

 and appear on a fudden with more than twenty * young ones at 

 her heels. This I have known feveral times to have happened. 



The egrfX is fmaller than that of a Hen, and more of a rounded 

 fhape; the colour a reddifh white, obfcurely freckled with a 

 darker colour. 



This fpecies is very clamorous the day through, having a 

 creaking harfh kind of note, fomewhat like a door turning on its 

 rufty hinges, or an ungreafed axle-tree; and when at rooft is 

 often fo eafily difturbed, as to hinder the reft of a family, the 

 whole night through, from its noife. 



La Peintade a Poitrine blanche, Brif. orn. i. p. 180. A. 



Guinea Hen, Albin. ii. pi. 35. 



White-breafted Guinea Hen, Brown. Jam. p. 470. 



HpHIS differs merely in having a white breaft, marked with 

 large fpots of black, in which are fmaller ones of white : 

 the four firft quills, and the fame number of the outmoft greater 

 coverts, are alfo white. 



This is faid to be found at Jamaica j and is in fact no more 

 than a mere variety, of which many others are likewife found in 

 England, as it varies much. In fome, the ground of the plumage 

 is blueifh, inftead of black ; in others, fo very pale as to make 

 the white fpots very little confpicuous ; and not unfrequently of 



Var. A. 

 WHITE- 

 BREASTED P. 



Description, 



Placb* 



* Three or four and twenty very common, and not unfrequently as far as 

 twenty-feiitn. 



a pure 



