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<6 THE NTAURAL HISTORY 
{cales, and the fcales reach two inches above the | 
knees, where there are no feathers; the head, the | 
throat, and upper part of the neck, are covered 
with a fhort down, very clofe, and foft to the: 
touch. a3 
The Agami is remarkable for a very odd noife, 
which does not feem to come from the beak; 
indeed he firft makes a noife from his bill, like the 
word fcherck, two or three times repeated; this 
is followed by a ftrange noife from within, not 
much unlike the cooing of a pigeon, or-as if 
one faid tou, fix or feven times, with the mouth 
fhut, drawing out the laft tou for fome time, 
and lowering the note. It is a little like the 
-noife which the Dutch bakers make ina glaf, 
to tell their cuftomers that they are taking their 
bread out of the oven. . 
But there is reafon to fuppofe, that this noife 
does come from the beak very flighiy opened; 
though there are inftances in birds of noifes that 
‘come from within, and are heard through the | 
~ fkin, whilft the beak is fhut, as the cooing of 
Doves and the cry of the Hocco. 
When they are properly attended to, in a tame” 
ftate, they keep themfelves very neat: they often 
fmooth the feathers of their wings and of their 
bodies with their beaks. Sometimes, when they 
fight, 


