... I was half out of bed, and Duncan had been hanging at the elbow of these fighting cocks, ready to intervene upon the least occasion... 
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...Gray Shirtsays the flocks, which are of eight or ten, always have the same quantityof cocks and hens, and that they live together “white man fashion,”i...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...At dawn the first sounds were the crowing of cocks, the lowing of cows, the bleating of calves, and the chirruping of sparrows (which might have reminded him of Europe)...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...Soonthere were many cocks on the war-path...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...The few to be found at firstprobably are cocks who have not succeeded infinding mates, and consequently are “at a looseend...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...In the small town of Melbourne, in Derbyshire, cocks and hens may beseen running about the streets...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...Tegetmeier informs me, "the great difficulty in breeding cocks of the golden-spangled variety is their tendency to have black breasts and red backs...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...The chickens were hatched in the spring, and in the latter part of August several of the young cocks began to exhibit a change, which with some of them increased during the following years...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...Game fowls are notorious for their pugnacity; and the young cocks crow, clap their little wings, and obstinately fight with each other, even whilst under their mother's care...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...The writer says he has seen half-a-dozen cocks thus sacrificed...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...The hens are of a good size; the cocks arelarge, approaching the heaviest breeds in weight...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Of superior specimens, the cocks weigh from seven to ninepounds, and the hens from six to eight...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...In the cocks, a single, upright comb sometimes almost entirely takes theplace of the crest; the hens, too, vary in this respect, some having notmore than half a dozen feathers in their head-dress...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...The habits of the domestic fowl, in a wild state, are too little knownto ascertain whether the cocks always associate with the hens, or onlyoccasionally...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Some assert that caponized cocks are never afterwardsubject to the natural process of moulting; but this is denied byothers...
Robert Jennings 「Sheep, Swine, and Poultry」
...Inthis regard the creature may be compared to our cocks and hens...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
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