THE TKUMPETER. 



(FSOPHIA CREPITANS.) 



Teumpeters are great pets, and well they may be, not 

 only on account of their wonderful intelligence, but they 

 are beautiful in form, and delightful in colour; most 

 inquisitive and easily taught to attend to other birds. I 

 have met with one that was fond of rearing chickens ; it 

 would walk about, pick up and drop morsels of food 

 to the little chickens that surrounded their long-legged 

 foster-mother. The trumpeter is fond of society, and will 

 follow the person about to whom it becomes attached. 



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