
_ THE NATURAL AISTORY 
away, a and all the flock immediately. follows in 
order. | =" 
Sometimes they are Gaulhiee by the Guslee 
and become ftupid and motionlefs, through fear, 
which gives him time. to kill them all, one after 
another. | 
Their lef is very nice food, sectelle ‘es - 
tongue, ‘Apicius, a glutton-of Rome, recom- 
mended it-as a delicacy, Apicius fpent a very. 
large fortune in eating and drinking, and poifoned 
himfelf at laft left he fhould die through want, 
though he had fill very {ufficient left, aa a 
The Pheenicopterus, or Flamingo, -is covered ~ 
with down like the Swan; and its fkin, like the — 
Swan’s, is made into furs, which are very, warmy 
and ufeful-to old people, It is eafily tamed; 
__ in three or four days young ones will come and 1 
- eat out of the hand, ay 
A French Gentleman at St. Doniecas an tend a 
$m the Weft- Indies, obferved a wild Flamingo: 
near his houfe; he ordered a little Negro to drive 
towards it a tame one, of which he had. the care, | 
The Negro took with him the trough, out of, 
which the tame Flamingo was fed, and placed it, > 
by the fide of the marfh, and hid himfelf near ite 4 
‘The tame I lamingo foon came to it, the wild one. 
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