









OF BIRDS. 11 

In Dufky Bay, in New Zealand, Gallinules 
1 were fo tame that they ftood ftill, and looked at 
the failors, and fuffered them to come near enough 
ig to kill them with fticks. New Zealand is a 
. -newly-difcovered country, and the poor birds there 
do not yet know how very wanton and cruel men 
a Petey: are. 
_ ‘The purple Gallinule’s forehead is bare and red ; 
thas many circles or garters ; its feet are divided ; 
ie the body is greenifh, beneath of a violet colour. 
Phe purple Gallinule can live both upon land 
EPs in water ; he eats fruit, and meat, and fith, 
es and is eafily tamed; his carriage is noble, his 
form beautiful, his. plumage brilliant, that is, 
 fhining ; ; the colours are purple glofled with blue, 
and green gloffed with the colour of the emerald. 
e "Like the cock he feratches the ground, yct he 
- ules one of his feet like a hand, to carry his food 
‘to hi mouth. ve has learned this habit becaufe 
At to him, for his neck is fhort and 
ke it painful to 
mm the ground with 
ifs 
ere 6 pent pleafed with the 
f this bird, that they never fed upon it, 
aght it from Lybia, a part of Africa, now 
4 Bares, and part of Barbary, to keep it in 
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