20. THE NATURAL HISTORY 
curling forwards at their points. ‘He can raife 
or lower this creft at pleafure ; , but he has never 
been obferved to raife the feathers of his tail, like 
the Peacock and Turkey. | 
The Powele, (or Hocco, as it is called by E Buf 
fon,) frequents woods and mountains, in feveral — 
parts of South America, perching upon trees, | 
where it likes to rooft.. 4 
Thefe birds are eafily brought up tame, and 
are frequently found in the Dutch fettlements of © 
Berbice, Effequibo, and Demerary, in South A~ 
merica. They are fed with bread and maize 5 _ 
and their fleth is delicate food. 
The carriage of the Powele is noble; it is a 
gentle and unfufpicious bird, and when in its wild 
Rate in flocks, does not attempt to efcape, though 
it fees its companions fhot one after another, — 
Such a bird muft be eafily tamed; in a domettic 
ftate it will wander to fome diftance i in the day, 
but returns to its ufual roofting place in the even= _ 
ing. It may be made fo familiar as to ftrike © 
againft the door with its beak ‘that it may be 
| opened,—to take the fervants by their clothes when. 
they negle&t it,—to follow its mafter like the 
Agami, and, like the Agami, to exprefs great 
fatisfaction, when it fees its mafter again after a 
Short abfence, “ | 4 
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