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‘Genus 62, PHASIANUS.. 
a “The cheeks are covered with : fmooth naked tkitte 
IRS T fpecies, The common Cock has a 
red flefhy fubftanee, comprefied or flattened 
on his head, and on each fide of his throat, 
The ears are naked, - 
~The tail is pompredes, and raifed ; in the male 
arched. | = 
: ~The Cock is a heavy bird, of a ‘flow anit rahi: 
_JeRtic 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 dometticated, ‘feverdl varieties muft 
: be expected, but in all cafes three of the toes are : 
: placed before and the reft behind. — 
Two feathers grow out of every quill. The 
? “til 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 {purs. 
__- This bird is now ‘introduced every where, it .. 
x came probably at axtt from the Katt Indies, or 
fome 

