PLATE CLXXXIX. 



Pavoncella. Cet, uc, Sard, p, 253. 



Ruff and Reeve. fVilL fJngl.) p, 302. t, 56. 



JIMn, 1. t. 72.73. 



Lath, Syn, 5.p, 159. 1. 



In an early part of the prefent work we prefented our readers with 

 a figure of the Male or Ruff*; the fubje6l now chofen is a variety 

 of the Female or Reeve. The length of the male is about twelve 

 inches^ that of the female is rather lefs. 



It is remarked of this fpecies that the ruff or male birds are fo 

 variable in colour, that it is fcarcelj poflible to find two birds that 

 perfectly correfpond in this particular. The Reeves are alfo variable 

 jn a lefs confiderable degree. 



The males when in full plumage are diftinguifhed by the remarkable 

 tufts of feathers which form a kind of collar or ruff round the neck, 

 from whence it derives the name ; but in the moulting feafon this ruff 

 falls off, and the apppearance of the male at that time fo nearly refem, 

 bles the female that they cannot eafily be diflinguilhed. 



* Plate XIX. Vol. I. 



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