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only. After the hen has done laying and fetting, the plumage of the 
female becomes like that of the male, and fhe is then entirely neg- 
leGted by him. Salerne, Edwards, and others, have mentioned this 
of the Pheafant, Guinea Hen, Rock Manakin, &c. and Mr. a 
Flonter hada paper in the Philofophical ‘TranfaGtions on that fubjec. 
Latham obferves, that it does not always require mature age to give 
the hen Pheafant the appearance of the male, 
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