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COCK. 



stituting part of his artificial genus Phasianus. 

 The earlier ornithologists, amongst whom were 

 Gesner, Aldrovandus, and Ray, sufficiently dis- 

 criminated between the Cocks and the Pheasants, 

 and placed the former by themselves, calling theih 

 by the ancient name Gallus ; in which they have 

 been followed by Brisson, Vieillot, Temminck, and 

 other modern systematists, who prefer following 

 the plain system of nature to the shackled and 

 artificial one of Linne. 



As all the birds of the genus have the same 

 manners of life as the Domestic Cock, and a full 

 account of them being given in the description of 

 that species, the reader is referred to that place, as 

 our limits will not allow of the unnecessary re- 

 petition that must otherwise occur : suffice it to 

 state that the native place of the whole of them 

 appears to be within the Asiatic tropics, those 

 found without being in a domestic state. 



