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a ud Parrots. When it raifes its voice, it makes a An- 
gular creaking found, eafier to be imagined than de- 
scribed, fomewhat refembling the cackling of a hen, 
but more fonorous : there is a peculiarity in it which 
ulmoft penetrates the brain, and affefe the head in 
^ manner not to be defcribed; this, at lead, has 
happened to me. I never heard it make this loud 
n °ife but in the morning ; but its conftant noife is 
hke a Turkey Hen. It chufes high places to deep 
Ul, as Hens do: it is brought up tame in Nubia, 
y nd other places of Africa, as well as America, 
'"'here it is very familiar, and feeds with other 
Poultry. It is as pretty a bird as one would wilh to 
fee, and is certainly the third bird in beauty, after 
the Peacock and Humming bird : it does not, it is 
tr ue, dazzle the eye with gaudy colours; but its ele- 
gant lhape, and the regular difpofition of the fpots, 
make it appear perfectly handfome. 
43. Tetrao orientalis u . The Oriental Partridge. 
It is of the fize of the common Partridge, and is 
found in the groves and woods of Natolia. It is 
riken in the winter. 
"H* Tetrao Coturnix The Quail. Tetrao Ifrael- 
itarum. HalTelquift. 
It is of the fize of a Turtle Dove: I have met 
}^uh it in the wildernefs of Pakeftine, near the 
mores of the Dead Sea and Jordan, between Jordan 
and Jericho, and in the defarts of Arabia Petrosa. If 
r he food of the Ifraelites in the defarts was a bird, 
u Lin. Syft Nat. P. 161. N. 12. w P. 161. N. 13. 
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