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the eggs. When about to lay, their faces turn red, and 

 then a good hen must be prepared. The date must be 

 clearly written upon the shells of the eggs laid, and 

 they will hatch in twenty-five days. When hatched, take 

 the young and put them upon cotton spread upon some 

 warm water, and feed them with eel's blood for five 

 days ; after five days they can be fed with eel's flesh 

 chopped fine, and great care must be taken in watching 

 them. 



" 'When fishing, a straw tie must be put upon their 

 necks, to prevent them from swallowing the fish when 

 they catch them. In the eighth or ninth month of the 

 year they will daily descend into the water at ten o'clock 

 in the morning, and catch fish until five in the after- 

 noon, when they will come on shore. They will con- 

 tinue to go on in this way until the third month, after 

 which time they cannot fish until the eighth month 

 comes round again. The male is easily known from 

 the female, in being generally a larger bird, and in hav- 

 ing a darker and more glossy feather, but more particu- 

 larly in the size of the head, the head of the male being 

 large, and that of the female small.' 



" Such are the habits of this extraordinary bird. As 

 the months named in the note just quoted refer to the 

 Chinese calendar, it follows that these birds do not fish 

 in the summer months, but commence in autumn, about 

 October, and end about May, periods agreeing nearly 

 with the eighth and third month of the Chinese year."-'-' 



But the king of the Gullery has yet to pay us a visit, 

 and when he does come, he will at once take the same 

 pre-eminent rank as the Emeu in the paddock and the 



* Fortune's China, p. 109. 



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