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Yards with Blood, and in Spring particularly cauſe our Foreſts to ring again with the Noiſe they make in diſputing their Females, we muſt begin by excluding all thoſe Species, where Nature has evidently eſtabliſhed, in the relative Power of the Sexes, Relations different from thoſe which exiſt 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 obſerved, theſe Battles muſt be owing entirely to the fewneſs of the Females compared with the Males, or, which is all one, to the excluſive Intervals, during which the Females conſtantly refuſe the Addreſſes of the Males; for if the Female admits the Male but two Months in the Year, it is all the ſame as if the Number of Females were five ſixths leſs than what it is: now neither of theſe Caſes is applicable to the human Species, where the Number of Females ge-