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eourt- gui with Guinea fowl] and other poultry. 
They perch on trees in the open air to rooft. 
| Mr. Buffon-had one which was fent from 
» Guinea; he kept it fome time in a garden; it 
fed upon -plants, efpecially the hearts of lettuces 
and endive, but rice, fteeped in water, is perhaps 
its proper food; it picked up infedts and earth 
worms, and was fond of bathing itfelf, It made 
a loud noife like a trumpet, and when it was left 
long alone feemed very uneafy. It would follow 
thofe who came to look at it, and if any thing . 
-amufed it, fo as to occafion its ftaying a little 
_ while behind, it would make hafte to overtake its 
_ company. 
When it is quite compofed, it ftands upon one 
bai with its neck bent in a ferpentine form, but 
when it is roufed, then it lengthens its neck, raifes 
‘its head, and walks forward eravely, meafuring as 
‘It were its fleps; then it is het it ape in all 
its dignity. 
It is found only in warm slnddeas and that 
~ which Mr. Buffon mentions, always roofted in the 
evening in a room, in which there was a fire; and 
ifthe door was fhut, it would make a noife like a 
. trumpet, that the door might be opened. 
 Bufbequius, when he was in Turkey, had one 
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