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from The Century Dictionary.
- In poultry, saddle-hackles collectively; the long slender feathers which droop on each side of the saddle of the domestic cock.
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Now, where two or three common cocks are kept, I want to know, if the tail sickle-feathers and saddle-feathers of one which had succeeded in getting wives were cut and mutilated and his beauty spoiled, whether he would continue to be successful in getting wives.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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