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afforded fo much fatisfa6lion to many of our readers, that we are 

 prevailed upon to add in this place a figure of the Hen and Young. 



The female of this bird, we muft acknowledge, yields in point of 

 gracefulnefs and commanding gaiety of the plumage to the male; 

 and ftill more confpicuoully in the deficiency of that fine flowing 

 train of feathers, which conftitute the tail coverts : but it yet pof- 

 feffes a very pleafing air, and its introdu6lion in the prefent Work 

 will affift to complete the hiilory of that much admired variety of 

 the Crefted Peacock. 



The Pied Peacock, ao intermediate breed or mixture between the 

 common and the white Peacock, is not inferior in point of fize to 

 the common kind, and as in that bird the female is rather fmaller ^ 

 the creft is alfo fhorter, and the legs rarely armed with fpurs. 



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