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directions in these extensive wilds. You will admire the Second 



Journey. 



horned Screamer as a stately and majestic bird : he is 

 almost the size of the turkey cock ; on his head is a long 

 slender horn, and each wing is armed with a strong, 

 sharp, triangular spur, an inch long. 



Sometimes you will fall in with flocks of two or three Flocks of 



Waracabas 



hundred Waracabas, or Trumpeters, called so from the orXrumpet- 



ers. 



singular noise they produce. Their breast is adorned 

 with beautiful changing blue and purple feathers ; their 

 head and neck like velvet ; their wings and back grey, 

 and belly black. They run with great smftness, and 

 when domesticated, attend their master in his walks, 

 with as much apparent affection as his dog. They have 

 no spurs, but still, such is their high spirit and activity, 

 that they browbeat every dunghill fowl in the yard, and 

 force the Guinea birds, dogs, and turkies to own their 

 superiority. 



If, kind and gentle reader, thou shouldst ever visit 

 these regions with an intention to examine their produc- 

 tions, perhaps the few observations contained in these . 

 wanderings may be of service to thee : excuse their 

 brevity : more could have been written, and each bird 

 more particularly described, but it would have been 

 pressing too hard upon thy time and patience. 



Soon after arriving in these parts, thou wilt find that 

 the species here enumerated are only as a handful from a 

 well-stored granary. Nothing has been said of the 



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