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CROWNED DEMOISELLEo 
the rump, and the tail, are bluish ash ; the latter 
and the quills are tipped with black : the legs are 
black. 
This bird is a native of many parts of Asia and 
Africa ; in the latter most numerous about Bil- 
dulgerid and Tripoli ; also along the whole of the 
southern shores of the Mediterranean, as well as 
the eastern. It delights in damp and marshy 
places, frequenting those parts for the sake of its 
food, which consists principally of small fishes, 
frogs, and such like. It is easily domesticated, and 
is frequently kept in menageries, and is fond of 
putting itself into strange and uncouth attitudes, 
sometimes as if dancing : in some parts called the 
dancing bird, or Kurli, It will breed in confine- 
ment : Buffon mentions an instance of one which 
lived twenty-four years in a menagerie at Ver- 
sailles, that had been reared there from the egg. 
B. T E'SsivoTs.k glabra. 
B. Temples smooth. 
CROWNED DEMOISELLE. 
( Anthropoides Pavonina.) 
An. ccerulcscens, cnjAte nigro, crista setosd Jlavescente erectd, alls 
^ albis, caudd nigrd. (Femina nigra ubi mas est cccrulescens, 
palearia minuta.) 
