PLATE XLVI. 
The Game Cock. 
The Game Cock is a well known bird, and highly efteemed for the beauty of its plumage, and 
its valour : he will bear no rival, and fupports, while he has life, the lordlhip of the walk on which 
he treads. If one of the fame fpecies be near him a battle is inevitable, wherein one is fure to fall, 
as neither will yield to the other: and if by chance they are feparated, they watch for, and embrace 
the firft opportunity of renewing the engagement, and it frequently happens that both birds are 
■fpoiled by the contell. Should it fo be, that a Game Cock, and a common Cock are in one Yard 
they are fure to have a battle, which, however, is of no long duration, as the latter quickly fubmits 
and the former being conqueror is content with his conqueft, and they live afterwards in perfeft 
harmony, it never being known that the true Game Cock will, after gaining the battle, teaze, and 
torment his opponent as the Common Cocks do each other. Thefe birds fhould always be hatched 
in the month of March that they may have the whole Summer to grow in — they fhould not breed 
with the old ftock, but change the Hens, otherwife the breed will degenerate, and become fmall 
and of little value. If the Game Cock is taken into a Foreign Country he will lofe his courage, 
and becomes of no more value than a common Fowl. Stately and majellic in his appearance, he 
carries a fuperiority over all other Fowls even in his looks ; in his colours he difplays great brilliancy, 
and at the age of three years, is, without doubt, one of the finefl birds we have in this kingdom. 
No. XVI. 
