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Herok. 

 Pjnguin. 



LAND OF PAPUAS, or NEW GUINEA. 



of love, the found of bellowing ; at which feafon it brings it? 

 head to its breaft, and emits its amorous note. They foon grow 

 tame, and take to the food which is placed before them ; they 

 are pugnacious, and will ftrike a hard blow with their wings, 

 which are armed with a horny excrefcence. It is faid that they 

 are kept in the Eajl Indies in the court yards as domeftic poultry. 

 They have been brought alive to France ^ where the female has 

 formed its neft in a tree in the Menagery, and laid eggs, but 

 they never produced young. They breed in their native country 

 on the higheft trees, and lay a very large egg. Our authority, 

 Dampier, faw a bird of this kind fliot on the coaft oiNew Guinea 

 as big as the largeft dunghill cock. M. Bougainville met with 

 them in the fame country ; they alarmed his crew by the loud- 

 nefs of their note, who miftook it for a favage roaring of the 

 natives. It is a fpecies very local, confined to New Guinea, Pulo, 

 Sabuda, a fmall ille off the fame country, and Tomoguy another. 

 The Molucca people call them Mulutu, the Papuas Manipi, M. 

 Sonnerat gives them the name of Goura ; the Dutch ftile it the 

 Kro(yn vogel'ov Crown bird. Sonnerat denies that thefe birds are 

 natives of Banda, and afferts that they are only brought there, 

 and purchafed by the Dutcb. 



Papuan ; Latham, iv. 532. PL Enl. 707. The head and whole 

 upper part of the body, wings, and tail black, the lower white, 

 with an orange fpot on the middle of the belly. 



New Guinea ; hathanti v. 71. PL Enl. 926. The whole of this 

 fpecies is black. Length only ten inches. 



Patagonian ; Latham, vi. 563. PL Enl. 975 ; Sonnerat, 179. 

 tab. 113; PhiL Tranf. Win, 91. tab. 5; Gen. Birds, p. 66. tab. 14. 



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