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domestic state. -Father Raymond assures us, that 

 he has seen one so tame and well educated among 

 the native Americans, that it would go off in the 

 morning at the word of command, and return 

 before night to its master, with its great pouch 

 distended with plunder; a part of which the 

 savages would make it disgorge, and a part they 

 would permit it to reserve for itself. 



" The pelican," as Faber relates, " is not des- 

 titute of other qualifications. One of those which 

 was brought alive to the Duke of Bavaria's court, 

 where it lived forty years, seemed to be possessed 

 of very uncommon sensations. It was much de- 

 lighted in the company and conversation of men, 

 and in music both vocal and instrumental ; for it 

 would willingly stand," says he, " by those that 

 sung or sounded the trumpet ; and stretching out 

 its head, and turning its ear to the music, listened 

 very attentively to its harmony, though its own 

 voice was little pleasanter than the braying of an 

 ass." Gesner tells us, that the Emperor Maxi- 

 milian had a tame pelican which lived for above 

 eighty years, and that always attended his army 

 on their march. It was one of the largest of the 

 kind, and had a daily allowance by the emperor's 

 orders. As another proof of the great age to 

 which the pelican lives, Aldrovandus makes men- 

 tion of one of these birds that was kept several 

 years at Mechlin, and was verily believed to be 

 fifty years old. We often see these birds at our 

 shows about town. 



