a THE NATURAL HISTORY | 
- fome of the Afiatic iflands. It has been found 
in moft of the iflands in Afia and in the South 
Seas, In Sumatra and Java, there is a very ] 
Jarge breed ; it is faid that the Cock is fo tall as 
to peck off a common dining-table ; that when | 
it is tired it refts on the frit joint of its leg, andis 
then taller than a common fowl, , ie a 
_ The Cock fcratches the ground for worms and 
infects, and {wallows {mall ftones, which help, him 
_ to digeft his food. 
Birds of this {pecies eat orain, bread, infects, — 
| and even meat. There have been inftances of | 

poultry which sby long confinementin a menagerie, — 
where there was no grafs, and few or no worms, — 
er infects, but where they could get at fome 
horfe-flefh (which was kept there occafionally 
for dogs) grew fo fond of animal food, that — 
they fometimes killed and devoured one another. q 
They deftroyed fome very young Turkeys, and 7 
fed greedily upon them, though they’were plen- — 
| tifully fupplied with barley. ‘The berries. of ae 7 
is very hurtful to them. 
They have three ftomachs, if we “alti the 
| gizzard t to be one; and the power of this laft is , 
fo great, that in four hours it will reduce into the — 
-fineft powder a hollow ball of glafs, ftrongenough — 
to er a weight of ou yee, without break~ 
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