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of the body, is fometimes difplayed like a fan, and gives it on flight, 
or when fitting, a very majeftic appearance. The natives know very 
little of its habits, haunts, &c. however, they confider its appearance as 
an indication of wind and blowing weather, and that its frightful icream 
is through fear, as it is not a bird of very active or quick flight. The 
pupil of the eye appears uncommonly clear. It cannot eafily be 
tamed, for Mr. White obferves, that he kept a wounded one two days 
alive, though he could get it to eat nothing, but bit every thing that 
approached it very feverely. 
