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8 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
They are fuppofed to lay many eggs, as they 
are feen in families of twenty-four or twenty-five, 
old and together. 
In Se er and O@ober they colle&t in flocks 
of two hundred or more, and as foon as the frow 
falls, they frequent places where pines grow. 
The male crows for balf. an hour before day 
break, and at that time raifes his tuft upright. 
More males are killed than females, probably their 
noi, akcioteg Sis 9 the Hpoeten. 
is the Ruffed Hesthcock. 
and it has a ruff on the 


The fixth 
The legs are 
neck behind. 
These in a tél ia) tei heady’ end its vel fo 
Barred with black. ‘The tail js large, and often 
fpread like a fan; it is barred with waving lines 
of black, and upped with white. ‘The female 
_ has neither creft or ruff. 
‘Toe Renfied Heathock is « fine bind, he fpetids 
‘Wis tail like a Turkey, raifes the feathers of his 
raf, and fwells his breait like a Pouting Pigeon : 
his ftep is Dow, and his carriage majeltic. He 
fornctianes Bands upon a branch of a decayed tree, 
and claps his wings, at firt flowly, afterwards 
fafter, and by degrees wery quickly : mip 
