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Vindictiveness Jealousy Familiarity. 



battle will put a middle-sized dog to flight. It 

 avoids the bites of its antagonist by rising in 

 the air; and retaliates with violent blows of its 

 bill and nails, aimed chiefly at the eyes: and 

 after it gains the superiority, it pursues the vic- 

 tory with the utmost rancour, and, if not taken 

 oft', will destroy the fugitive. By its intercourse 

 with man, its instincts become moulded like 

 those of dogs; and it is asserted, that it can be 

 trained to attend a flock of sheep. It even shows 

 a degree of jealousy of its human rivals ; for when 

 at table it bites fiercely the naked legs of the ne- 

 groes and other domestics who come near its 

 master. 



Almost all these birds have also a habit of fol- 

 lowing people through the streets, and out of 

 town ; even those whom they have never seen 

 before. It is difficult to get rid of them: if a 

 person enter a house, they will wait his return, 

 and again join him though after an interval of 

 three hours. " I have sometimes," says M. de la 

 Borcle in a letter to the Comte de Buff on, 

 " betaken myself to my heels: but they ran 

 faster, and always got before me; and when I 

 stopped, they stopped also. I know one that in- 

 variably follows all the strangers who enter its 

 master's house, accompanies them into the gar- 

 den, takes as many turns there as they do, and 

 attends them back again." 



In a state of nature, this bird inhabits the im- 

 mense forests of the sultry climates of America 

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