NUMIDIAN CRANE. 
were kept at his house on Blackheath, where 
the Duke obhged me with a sight of them^ 
in order to take draughts. I beheve, the Cock 
and Hen difrer httle, or not at all, outwardly, 
in this species ; for the above-mentioned three, 
and two more which I saw at Sir Charles- Wa- 
ger's, were all alike. Mr. N. Robert has pub- 
lished a Copper Plate, with several of these 
Birds, in all their dancing acStions, from the birds 
kept in the Royal Menagerie, in the Park of 
Versailles. See his Book of Prints, from Na- 
ture, of the Birds of the Menagerie,' &c. pub- 
j Hshed at Paris, Anno 1676." 
I 
. - Goldsmith, who says the Numidian Crane 
is vulgarly called, by our sailors, the Buffoon 
Bird ; and, by the French, the Demoiselle, or 
Lady ; seizes, with avidity, the opportunity 
to chara6lerise, from this circumstance, both 
countries. " The same qualities," says he, 
j*^ have procured it these different appellations 
From two nations; who, on more occasions 
than this, look upon the same objeds in very 
JifFerent lights. The peculiar gestures and con- . 
'Oi tions of this bird, the proper name of which 
s the Numidian Crane, are extremely singu- / 
lar ^ 
