P WA TE” XCVU. 
The female is much fmaller than the male. _ Its length is eighteen 
inches, weight two pounds; the colours are red, black, and dufky 
white, which are difpofed in alternate bars and fpots, in different 
direCtions. The moft remarkable part of the male bird is the tail, 
which confifts of fixteen feathers ; the exterior ones curve very much 
outwards, and give it a forked appearance ; but when the tail is 
expanded, it refembles a large fan. Length of the male is twenty- 
one inches. 
‘The female lay fix or eight eggs, of a yellowifh colour, fpeckled 
with ferruginous, and blotched at the fmall end with the fame 
* colour. The young males leave the female parent in the beginning 
of winter, and keep in flocks, of fix or eight, till {fpring. They 
are very quarrelfome, and fight like game-cocks, 
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