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panded wings ; and fleeps on one foot, with the head drawn in 

 between the fhoulders, like the Stork. 



I much fufpect that the bird of Du Tetre, above-quoted, is the 

 fame j which he fays is as large as a Capon, with a bill like a 

 Raven : the neck and legs longer than thofe of a Cock : the fea- 

 thers of the neck and breaft blue and glofly, equal to thofe of a 

 ■Peacock : the back grey brown : wings and tail black ; the lad 

 very fhort. 



This is faid to inhabit the Carribee I/lands, where it is called Fluci, 



Pheafant. It is often tamed, and kept among poultry : is quar- 

 relfome, and for the moft part victorious ; often killing not only 

 fowls, but Turkies alfo; and is known to follow the inhabitants, 

 efpecially the negroes, pecking their legs, and not unfrequently 

 fetching blood. 



The flefh is reckoned as good as that of a Pheafant. 



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