NATURAL HISTORY. 
quently exhibited in different parts of the 
world. 
This clafs includes allb the turk^% Gui- 
nea hen, pheafant, buftard, gronfc, partridge, 
and quail ; but, as their feveral propenlitics 
are not fo particularly diflinguifliable as the 
preceding, wc fliall content ourfelves with 
clefcribingthem in their proper places. 
Moll of tire birds of this clafs arc remark- 
able for the whitenefs and purity of their 
flelh, as well as for their bulk. They have 
ftrpng bills to pick up their food, which prin- 
cipally confifbs of grain and worms, and fhort 
concave wings, which render them flow in 
flight. 
rhe COG K. 
O F all birds, the cock feems to have been 
firft reclaimed from the foreft, to gratify 
the luxury .and amiifement of man. This 
bird, in its domeftic Ifate, undergoes many 
variations. In Japan, there is a fpecics of 
this fowl, which feems to be covered with 
hair inllead of feathers. Thcfe varieties 
fliow the length of time they mull have been 
under the dominion of man ; the departure 
from their original charaflcriftic arifing from 
Ihe mixture of breeds, brought from dif- 
ferent countries, which have bee^ allowed 
lo corrupt, without improving the flock. 
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