18 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
~ followed him wherever he went. She would ftrik 
at his door with her beak, and when fhe faw hin 
fhewed many figns of joy; but if the could ng 
find him, fhe made a very complaining noife. §h 
flept at night under his bed, and laid an egg there; 
At laft the foldier was fent away, and fhe pine 
and died of grief. ‘This bird is fometimes calleg - 
the Balearic Crane. It fleeps on one leg, rut 
very faft, and can fly very well, and for a lon 
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ARDEA VIRGO, 
Tue DEMOISELLE 
Has a tuft of long white feathers behind each eyg 
which bang downwards in an elegant mannef 
On the top of its head are long, foft, filky few 
thers, of a beautiful Black. . It has the fame kin 
of feathers on the fore-part of its neck. Fro 
' the elegance of its appearance, and its finguk 
carriage, it is called the Demoifelle, which meal 
the ‘Young Lady. For this bird walks very grace 
hy ' . fully, and fometimes fkips and leaps as though 
were g to dance. . 
Xenophon fays, that thofe who:went to ta 
the Demoifelles, pretended to wath their eyes, 
ficht of the birds, with water out of fome vefft 

