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CROWNED DEMOISELLE. 



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, w^hich 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 Kurld. 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. Tempoea o'/a6m. 

 B. Temples smooth, 



CROWNED DEMOISELLE. 



(Anthropoides Pavonina.) 



An. ccBrulescens, capite nigra, crista setosd Jlavescente erecta, alls 

 albis, Cauda nigra, (Femina nigra ubi mas est ccsrulescens, 

 palearia minuta.) 



