
4 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Their voice is very loud, and 4 fome thought 
di fagreeable. | 
They live about twenty-five years. 
In the Eaft Indies they are taken in this man- 
ner,—two candles lighted, and an artificial ora 
{tufted Peacock, are placed on a frame; and to 
this. frame is fixed a noofe: when the Peacock 
is at rooft, this is raifed upon a pole, and brought 
near him; he puts out his neck to look at the 
painted or artificial Peacock, and fo is caught in 
the noofe. | 
Young Pea-fowl are very good food. The Ro-. 
mans, who were very expenfive, and very cruel in 
procuring their entertainments, frequently had 
difhes made of the heads and brains of Pea-fowl,and 
of the tongues of finging birds. Thefe difhes could 
not be more pleafing to the tafte than many others, 
and fhewed a want of good-fenfe, as well as ex- 
travagance, or waftefulnefs, and unfeeling minds, — 
The crefts of Pea-fowl were formerly ufed as 
ornaments by the Kings of England, and fans 
have been made of their feathers, and crowns 
for poets. a 
_ A very furprifing account has been given of a — 
‘Peahen, which, after it had done laying eggs, bee 
came very much like a Peacock; its feathers 
were 

