NUMIDIAN CKANE. 
long .delicate filaments that hang from each J 
side of the head of the Numldian Dancing j 
Bird, 
f The six Demoiselles, which were kepti 
some time in the menagerie, came from Nu-I 
midia. W e can find nothing more precise inl 
naturalists, with regard to the countries whicl 
it inhabits. Travellers have, met with .it in| 
Guinea, and it appears to be a native of th( 
tropical parts of Africa : yet it would not b( 
impossible to reconcile it to our climate, to na- 
turalize it in our court-yards, and even to perl 
petuate the breed. The Numidian Cranes ol 
the Royal Menagerie have propagated ; am 
the one which died last, at the age of twenty! 
four years, was hatched in it. This fa6l,| 
adds BufFon, " was communicated to us, b| 
order of the Marshal Duke De Mouchy, Gol 
vernor of Versailles, and of the King's M( 
nagei 
H( 
d^joinj 
that the Academiciai 
give very minute details of the six birds whi( 
they dlssefled. The gizzard was similar 
that of a hen; and, like all the granivoroj 
birds, it contained bits of gravel. 
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