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 CHAPTER XXVI.

POULTRY AND GAME BIRDS.

next great Order of birds, of which the domestic moorghee is for ever the type, is by no means so homogeneous as the Pigeons. Indeed, the variety of forms and fashions in which it exhibits itself has

no parallel except among fashionable womankind. Some of the Pheasants have tails twice as long as their bodies; the Quail has a tail, but you must search for it if you wish to see it; the Peacock has an average tail, but the feathers of the back above it are developed into a train four feet long. Head-dresses are as various, The Peacock wears a corona of