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mifchievous difpofition, and frequently kill young 
Chickens. 
Like other, gallinaceous bint, they throw the 
duft with their feet amongf their feathers, in or- 
der to get rid.of infects ; ‘shee feratch the ground 
like Poultry, and in Africa go in flocks, but here 
they frequently feparate in pairs. 
In the Ifle of Mayo, one of the Cape de Verd 
iflands, they go in flocks of two of three hun- 
dred. ‘The iflanders hunt them with dogs 5 they 
fly heavily, but run very faft, and rooft in high 
trecs. 
The hen lays a great number of eggs, and they 
are much nicer than thofe of a common Hen, 
but fhe is fo wild, that in a domeftic ftate fhe 
makes a very indifferent nurfe. | 
The young Guinea Fowl therefore are a 
reared under a common Hen, They rec 
great care in bringing up, but this depends os 
on the feafon, for they muft be preferved from 
‘the wet, the cold, and the dew, and yet have 
the opportunity of providing themfelves with in- 
fect food. 
Their eggs are fmaller, and more round than 
thofe of the common Hen, of a reddifh white co- 
touts freckled with fmall fpots, ‘The fhell is res 
markably 
