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place to them, and actually fit on the eggs fe- 
veral hours every day 5 they join with her in 
feeding the young ; and, laftly, they are docile, 
and learn whatever we chufe to teach them. It 
is by thefe alone that we mu ft form an opinion 
of the Species ; and I have only mentioned the 
others, to demonftrate that the temper and dif- 
pofition, even in animals, proceed from Na- 
ture and not from education. 
This bad difpofition, which makes them 
break their eggs and kill the neftlings, often 
proceeds from their temperament and from the 
impetuofity of their love ; it is to enjoy the fe- 
male that they drive her from the neft and de- 
flroy the tender objects of her affedlion. 'Ac- 
cordingly, the bell means of making thefe 
birds hatch is not to feparate them, or to put 
them in different cages. It is better to put 
them into a room well expofed to the fun, and 
to the eaft, in Winter, where there are many 
hens and a few cocks : here they enjoy them- 
selves more, and multiply better : when a hen 
fits, the cock finds him another mate, and does 
not difturb her. Befides, the cocks have many 
quarrels among themfelves from jealoufy ; and 
when they fee any one fo ardent as to torment 
the female, and attempting to break the eggs, 
they beat him Sufficiently to deaden his de~ 
fires. 
