^9*2 TRAVELS IN 
ber of bens to affociate in common with fetre- 
Fal cocks, the fame attachment to the female 
is net difplayed, and Ptiil lefs to the young flie 
may bring forth. Whetber the cock in the wild 
flare haTC feveral hens, is a chxnmftancc with 
which we are unacquainted. Sonnerat, to 
t^'hom natural hiftory is greatly indebted,, 
brought from India a wild cock and hen, 
'W^iich he fuppofes to be of the origina! fpecies, 
tvhenee our dcmeftlc ones fprung; but he 
gives us no information refpeding the man- 
ners of thefe birds. In Africa I found neither 
the fpecies nor genus of our domeflic fowls, 
at lead: in a ilate of iiature ; though I have 
lien, in feveral collecTdons in Europe, wild 
cocks and hens altogether diSerent from thofe 
brotighfe over by Sonnerat, and forming diftincit 
fpecies. I fl^all give figures of them in my 
©rnithology. 
One of my Srfl: career v/as to go and examine 
the fkin of my giraffe, it had coft me too 
much trouble to allow me to be indifferent 
about its prefervation. Having been fiis 
months expofed on a fcaiTokl, 1 had reafon to 
fear its being damaged. I approached \l 
tVQmhlingi but jcT^ ioon fucceeded to my 
anxiety^. 
