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COCK OF THE PLAINS. 
are the longest, reaching but a trifle beyond the adjoining, 
and so on in succession, the difference in length increasing 
progressively, but very gradually at first, and more and more as 
they are distant from the centre, there being nearly an inch 
difference between the third and second, and full that between the 
second and the outer, which is only six inches long, while the 
middle is ten. All the twenty are narrow, tapering, acute, and 
falciform, turning inward. Those toward the middle are less 
curved, but more conspicuously acuminate and narrow for nearly 
two inches, all but the middle ones being slightly square at their 
narrow tips. 
Though we have reason to believe that the specimen described 
and figured is a female, yet from the broad patch upon the belly, 
and other marks unnecessary to be specified, we should not be 
surprised at its being a young male just beginning to change. In 
that case, and supposing him to have attained his full growth, 
this species would prove to be inferior in size to the Cock of 
the Woods, as its male would only be equal to the female of 
the latter. 
END OF VOL. III. 
