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pace with the fpeed of a common horfe. Upon an attack, or atarnij 
they fly for a flaort diftance, and then fuddenly face about, and draw 
up in batck array, with furprifing quicknefs and regularity ; their horns 
being laid back, and their muzzles proje^ltng. Upon the nearer ap* 
proach of the danger that prefTes on them, they make a feeond fliglir, 
and a fecond time halt, and form : and this excellent mode of retreat ; ^ 
which but few nations of the human race, have attained to fuch a degree 
of difcipUne, as to adopt ; they continue till they gain a neighbouring 
wood. Their principal foe, next to maa, is the tiger; but only the 
weaker fort, and the females, fall a certain prey to this ravager i the 
fturdy male buffaloe can fupport the fir ft vigorous ftroke from the tiger's 
pa#, on which the fate of the battle xiloally turns. 
Of Birds there is a much greater variety than of beafts^. To enumerate Birds- 
the different fpecies is quite beyond my power. The moft obvious are 
as follows : but I do not offer this lif!, as containing a tenth part of 
what might be found on the ifland, by a perfon who fliould confine his 
refearchcs to this fubje<3:« 
The m-QWy or famous Sua^atran or Argos pheafant, of which no com- 
plete fpecimen has been hitherto feen in Europe, is a bird of uncom* 
mon beauty ; the plumage being perhaps the mofl: rich, without any de- 
gree of gaudinefs, of all the feathered race. It is found extremely dif* 
ficult to be kept aUvc, for any confiderabJe tfm« after catching it in the 
woods* I have never known it efTedred for above a month. It has an 
antipathy to the light* When kept in a darkened place, it appears at 
its eafe, and Ibmetimes makes ule of the note or call, from which it takes 
its name, and which is rather plaintive, than harlh like the peacock's, lii 
the open day it is quite mo|>ed and inanimate. The head is not equal in 
Jbeauty to the reft of the bird. The flefii, of which I haveeatcn, perfe<5lly 
relembles that of common pheafants, but it is of much larger fize. Thefe 
aH'o abound in the woods. 
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