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followed him wherever he went: She would ftrike 
at his door with her beak, and when fhe faw him’ 
| fhewed many figns of joy; but if fhe could not 
find him, fhe made a very complaining noife. Shé 
flept at night under his bed, and laid an egg there: 
At laft the foldier was fent away, and fhe pined | 
and died of grief. - This bird is fometimes called 
the Balearic Crane. It fleeps on one leg, runs ~ 
very faft, and can fly very well, and ~ a long 
time, 
ARDEA VIRGO. 
THE DEMOISELLE 
Has : a tuft of long white feathers hewtid each eye, | 
which: hang downwards in an elegant manner. 
On the top of its head are long, foft, filky fea- 4 
thers, of a beautiful black. It has the fame kind 
of feathers on the fore-part of its neck. From 4 
the elegance of its appearance, and its fingular — 
‘carriage, it is called the Demoifelle, which means 
~ the Young Lady. For this bird walks very grace= : 
fully, and fometimes fkips and leaps a: as though it 
were trying to dance. a 
Xenophon fays, that thofe who went to take 
_the Demoifelles, pretended to wafh their eyes, in — 
- fight of the birds, with water out of fome veflels 
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