Birds and Beafis of I. Mayo. 2 5 
good. The Natives take them with Dogs,^J«^^ 
running them down whenever they pleafe ; 
for here are abundance of them. You 
fhall fee 2 or 300 in a company. I had 
feveral brought aboard alive , where they 
throve very well ; fome of them 16 or 18 
Months; when they began to pine. When 
they are taken young they will become 
tame like our Hens. The Flamingo’s I 
have already defcrib’d at large, [Vol. I. 
p. 79.] They have alfo many other fort 
of Fowls, viz. Pidgeons and Turtle-doves ; 
Miniota’s , a fort of Land-fowls as big as 
Crows, of a grey colour, and good Food ; 
Crufia^s, another fort of grey - colour’d 
Fowl almoft as big as a Crow, which are 
only feen in the Night (probably a fort of 
Owls') and are faid to be good for con- 
fumptive People , but eaten by none elfe. 
RabeFs, a fort of large grey eatable Fowls 
with long Necks and Legs , not unlike 
Herons ; and many kinds of fmall 
Bitds. 
Of Land-Animals, here are Goats , as 
I faid formerly , and Affes good ftore. 
When I was here before they were 
faid to have had a great many Bulls 
and Cows : But the Pirates, who have 
fince miferably infefted all thefe Iflands, 
have much lelfen’d the number of thofe ; 
not having fpar’d the Inhabitants them- 
felves; for at my being there this time the 
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