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back feathers; legs five inches, fcaly j head, throat, and neck downy; 

 the front of the neck fplendid j the back, and back of the mck black ; 

 the lower part of the back brownifh-red j the reft black, as alfo the 

 wings and tail; the legs greenifh. 



This bird is fingular, by its power of making a noife, dull and deep, 

 not unlike the cooing of pigeons j which has always been thought to pro- 

 ceed from the anus, but which rather may be fuppofed to be a particular 

 motion of the lungs, whofe found is heard through the flefh : this toco 

 tooo he repeats feveral times, and often, when urged by the imitation 

 of it by by-ftanders. 



Are cleanly birds, drefs their feathers with their bills, leap and beat 

 their wings freely. Eat grain, little fi(h, bread, &c. Attach themfelves 

 like a dog to a mafter, and diftinguifli him, leap upon, to falute him, 

 .trumpeting (as fome call it); runs to meet him when returning home; at 

 home carefles him, and if he fuppofes a rival, drives him off; will peck 

 the negro fervants on the legs, when they approach his mailer j obeys 

 the voice of his mafter ; loves to be ftroked and fcratched on his head 

 and neck ; comes to table without being called ; drives off all the cats and 

 dogs before he begins to eat; never runs away, but avoids the blows of 

 his adverfaries by flying up, and falling on them. May be taught 

 like a dog to guard, and to guide a flock of ftieep. Follows his 

 mafter out of town, and returns with him. They often follow fomebody 

 to whom they take a liking, will feek and find him out, and wait at a door 

 two or three hours till he comes out; run if he runs, and ftop if he ftops. 

 Some will attend ftrangers into the garden of a houfe, and walk with 

 them in every turn and alley. 



When wild, go in troops from ten to forty, fly little, but run much, 

 and fwiftly. Neftle at the foot of fome great tree, where they make a 

 hole, but no neft : lay ten to fixteen eggs ; the young keep their firft 

 down longer than chicken, &c. till fomctimcs it is two inches long, and 

 they feem like beafts covered with hair. The young are not bad eating, 

 the old ones dry. 



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