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hearing refort to him: the hen lays feldom more 
than fix or feven eggs. The young males quit their : 
mother in the beginning of winter; and keep in 
flocks of feven or eight till fpring; during that 
time they inhabit the woods: they are very quar- 
relfome, and will ficht together like game cocks ; 
and at that time are fo inattentive to their own 
fafety, that it has often happened that two or three 
have been killed at one fhot. 
An old black cock weighs near four pounds: 
its length is one foot ten inches; its breadth two 
feet nine: the bill dufky: the plumage of the 
whole body black, gloffed over the neck and rump 
with a fhining blue. The coverts of the wings 
are of a dufky brown: the four firft quil feathers 
are black, the next white at the bottom; the lower 
half of the fecondary feathers white, and the tips 
are of the fame color: the inner coverts of the wings 
white: the thighs and legs are covered with dark 
brown feathers; on the former are fome white fpots: 
the toes refemble thofe of the former fpecies. The 
tail confifts of fixteen black feathers, and is much 
forked; the exterior feathers bend oreatly outwards, 
and their ends feem as if cut off. The feathers un- 
der the tail and inner coverts of the wings are of a 
pure white. | 
The female weighs only two pounds: its length 
is one foot fix inches; its breadth two feet fix. The 
head and neck are marked with alternate bars of 
dull red and black: the breaft with dufky, black 
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DESCRIP. 
FEMALE. 
