an extraordinary Pheafant. 53^ 
found with the feathers of the cock, had changed the 
nature of their feathers, particularly at a certain age ? 
If this idea be juft, it fhews, that there is a difpofition 
in the female to come nearer and nearer to the male, at 
leaft in the fecondary properties; or it may rather be 
faid, that the female is later in producing this change 
than the male is ; for it has already been obferved, that 
both fexes when young differ not from each other in 
thefe refpe£ts, but that the male appears to be the one 
that by degrees feparates itfelf from the female in its 
fecondary properties. 
