THE TEUMPETER. 
{PSOPHIA CREPITANS.) 
Trumpeters are great pets, and well they may be, not 
only on account of their wonderful intelligence, but they 
are beautiful in form, and delightful in colour ; most 
inquisitive and easily taught to attend to other birds. I 
have met with one that was fond of rearing chickens ; it 
would walk about, pick up and drop morsels of food 
to the little chickens that surrounded their long-legged 
foster-mother. The trumpeter is fond of society, and will 
follow the person about to whom it becomes attached. 
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