OF BIRDS. 23 
Grinvus 62. PHRASTA NUS 
The cheeks are covered with a fmooth naked skin. 
IRS T fpecies.. The common Cock has a 
red flefhy fubftance, compreffed or flattened 
on his head, and on each fide of his throat. 
The ears arenaked. | 
The tail is comprefled, and raifed ; in the male | 
artes: 
The Cock is a heavy bird, of a flow and ma- 
jeftic carriage, his wings are fhort, fo that he 
feldom flies, and when he does it feems to be 
with difficulty; he has generally four toes on 
each foot, fome have five; in a bird that has 
been fo long domefticated, iets varieties mutt 
be expected, but in all cafes three of the toes are 
se before and the reft behind. 
. Two feathers grow out of every quill. The 
tail confifts of fourteen feathers, in the male the 
two middlemoft are much longer than the reft, 
and bend in the form of a bow. The feathers of 
his neck and tail are long and narrow, and his 
legs. are armed with fpurs. 
This bird is now introduced every where, it 
“tame probably at firft from the Eaft Indies, or 
fome 
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