OF BIRDS. -. ry 
court-yards with Guinea fowl and other poultry. 
They perch on trees in the open air to rooft. 
Mr. Buffon had one which was fent from 
Guinea; he kept it fome time in a garden; it 
fed upon plants, efpecially the hearts of lettuces 
and endive, but rice, fleeped in water, is perhaps 
its proper food; it picked up infects and earth- 
worms, and was fond of bathing itfelf. It made 
a loud noife like a trumpet, and when it was left 
long alone feemed very uneafy. It would follow 
thofe who came to look at it, and if any thing 
amufed it, fo as to occafion its ftaying a little 
while behind, it would make hafte to overtake its 
company. 
When it is quite compofed, it ftands upon one 
leg, with its neck bent in a-ferpentine form, but 
when it is roufed, then it lengthens its neck, raifes 
its head, and walks forward gravely, meafuring as 
it were its fleps; then it is that it appears in all 
its dignity. 
It is found only in warm climates, and that 
which Mr. Buffon mentions, always roofted in the 
evening in a room, in which there was a fire ; and 
if the door was fhut, it,Wwould make a noife like a 
trumpet, that the door might be opened. 
Bufbequius, when he was in Turkey, had one 
of thefe birds wake took a fancy to a foldier, and 
followed 
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