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were of the fame colour, its train grew out, and 
_ was fpotted with eyes. 3 
There i is a variety of the Feacock whofe 
thers are perfectly white, and conftantly 10. They 
donot, like Hares and Foxes, and feveral other 
- animals, in cold northern countries, become white 
only in the winter, and afterwards change their 
colour again, but they and their young are al- 
_ ways white. ‘The eyes or moons may be diftins | 
 guifhed in the tail of the male, they are eee? 
but of a different fhade. | 
Another variety is produced between a white 
S Peacock anda common Peahen; thefe are pied, 
in fome parts white, in others like the common 
® Fea-fowl. 0 is 
There is another fpecies called the Iris Peas 
: —cock,—the feathers on the head are long, and 
_ . forma kind of creft; on the back part of each 
: : leg are two {purs. The wing feathers are each 
marked near the ends with a roundifh {pot of 
i, golden purple, which, in fome lights, feem to 
change to blue and green. ‘The train is longer 
than the tail, and each feather fpotted at the end 
a with a circle of black, and of orange. 

_ This bird inhabits China. ee ae. 
A - | Another 
