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of love, the found of bellowing ; at which feafon it brings its
head to its breaft, and emits its amorous note. They foon grow
tame, and take to the food which is placed before them ; they
are pugnacious, and will ftrike a hard blow with their wings,
which are armed with a horny excrefcence. It is faid that they
are kept in the Eaji Indies in the court yards as domeftic poultry.
They have been brought alive to France, where the female has
formed its neft in a tree In the Menagery, and laid eggs, but
they never produced young. They breed in their native country
on the higheft trees, and lay a very large egg. Our authority,
Dampier, faw a bird o f this kind ihot on the coaft o f New Guinea
as big as the largeft dunghill cock. M. Bougainville met with
them in the fame country ; they alarmed his crew by the loud-
nefs o f their note, who miftook it for a favage roaring of thé
natives. It is a fpecies very local, confined to New Guinea, Pulo,
Sabuda, a fmall ifle off the fame country, and Tomoguy another.
The Molucca people call them Mulutu, the Papuas Manipi. M.
Bonner at gives them the name o f Gour a ; the Dutch ftile it the
Kroon vogel or Crown bird. Sonnerat denies that thefe birds are
natives of Banda, and aiferts that they are only brought there,
and purchafed by the Dutch.
Papuan-, Latham, iv. 532. PL Enl. 707. The head and whole
upper part o f the body, wings, and tail black, the lower white,
with an orange fpot on the middle o f the belly.
New Guinea ; Latham, v. 71. PL Enl. 926. The whole of this
fpecies is black. Length only ten inches.
Patagonian ; Latham, vi. 563. Pl. Enl. 975; Sonnerat, 179.
tab. 113 ; Phil. Franf. lviii. 91. tab. 5; Gen. Birds, p. 66. tab. 14.
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I refer the reader to the Philofophical FranfaPiions for my account
o f this gigantic fpecies. The figure there is bad, taken
from an ill-ftuffed ikin ; that in my Genera of Birds excellent,
done from one taken from the life by Doilor Forfier. This fpecies
extends from near the equator to the moil frozen regions o f
the fouth.
Collared; Latham, vi. 571; Sonnerat, 181. tab. 114. This
fpecies has the neck, and all the upper part o f the body b lack; in
front o f the neck is a collar o f White, reaching only half round;
the eyes Unrounded with a naked ikin o f blood red ; breall and
belly white : length eighteen inches.
Papuan; Latham, vi. 565; Sonnerat, 181. tab. 115. The head
and whole upper part Of the body black; the hind part o f the
head marked with a white fpot; breaft and belly white : length
two feet and a half.
I w i l l conclude this incomplete l i f t by faying, that the circumambient
feas of New Guinea, as well as the Spicy Sea, have
all the pelagic birds of the tropical regions, befides thofe which P e l a g i c B i r d s .
wander within them from the north and from the fouth. Tropic T r o r i c B ir d s .-
birds are here feen hovering at amazing heights, or darting on
the flying fifties, driven out o f their element by the purfuit o f the
Bonito, Albicore, and other o f their congenial enemies; fometimes
refting on the water, or on the backs o f the fleeping tortoifes,
ftupidly fuffering themfelves to be taken b y the navigators who
happen to pafs by. They breed in feveral places within the Fropics,
in the Atlantic. and Pacific Oceans, both on the ground, and in
trees along with the frigates, and in fuch numbers, that the
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