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 Yards with Blood, and in Spring particularly caue our Forets to ring again with the Noie they make in diputing their Females, we mut begin by excluding all thoe Species, where Nature has evidently etablihed, in the relative Power of the Sexes, Relations different from thoe which exit among us: thus from the Battles of Cocks we can form no Induction that will affect the human Species. In the Species, where the Proportion is better oberved, thee Battles mut be owing entirely to the fewnes of the Females compared with the Males, or, which is all one, to the excluive Intervals, during which the Females contantly refue the Addrees of the Males; for if the Female admits the Male but two Months in the Year, it is all the ame as if the Number of Females were five ixths les than what it is: now neither of thee Caes is applicable to the human Species, where the Number of Females