
8 |THE NATURAL HISTORY | 
‘Their voice is very loud, and % fome thought 
difagreeable. 
_ They live about twenty-five years. 
In the Eaft Indies they are taken in this man- 
_ ner,—two candles lighted, and an artificial or a 
ftuffed Peacock, are placed on a frame; and to’ 
this frame is fixed a noofe: when the Peacutk a 
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 coe 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 
ofthe 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 exe : 
_ 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, ang crowns 
'. for poets. | 
A very furprifing account has been given of a 
| Peahen, which, after it had dorie laying egos, be- 4 
came a much like a Peacock; its feathers : 
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