Manners. 



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thers dirty grey, the reft blackifh, with white ends : the legs are 

 red, and the claws black. 



Linnaus thought thefe two to be male and female ; but Buffon 

 confirms them to differ only from age, that with the red bill and 

 legs, laft defcribed, being the adult bird. 

 Place and Thefe are very common at Senegal, and other warm parts of 



the old continent, where they are called Tack. They are very tame 

 and foolifh birds while young, infomuch as to fuffer themfelves 

 to be taken by the hand; but having learned experience with, 

 mature age, they then become rather fhy. When taken young, 

 they immediately become familiar; but are fo ftupid as not to 

 feed of themfelves, though food be offered to them, requiring it 

 to be put into their mouths. In their wild irate they feed on 

 fruits, but when domefticated eat bread, and will fwallow almoft 

 any thing that is offered to them. 



This, I make no doubt, is the bird defcribed as an Ani by 

 M. Forfchal*. He fays that the bill is twice as long as the 

 head, and bends downwards, with a fpot of white at the bafe of 

 the upper mandible; on the lower, three or four whitifh ob- 

 lique curved ridges of white : tongue very fhort, haftato-fubu- 

 lated and plain: head and neck grey brown: belly white: the 

 reft of the bird grey fpotted with white, and a band of the fame 

 over the eyes : quills tipped white ; the prime ones cinereous, 

 fecondaries black: tail feathers ten in number, as long as the 

 whole body, even at the end, and black tipped with white, all 

 but the two middle, which are wholly brown : legs black brown, 



* The name he gives it is Kakab ; and fays that it feeds on fnakes and cha- 

 meleons. Faun. Arab. p. vi. — Adanfon mentions his garnifhing a wooden fpit 

 " with a Toucan, two Partridges, and two Guinea Hens." Fey. to Sen. 8vo. 

 p. 144.— His Toucan was, no doubt, this bird. 



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