Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . atalogue out of whichour imagination produces pictures of luxury that, amid the wildness andrudeness of that barbarous land, seem more like the magicians workthan tangible realities, which await the worn-out traveller across six hun-dred miles of plains and mountains and rivers and swamps, where a suc-cession of naked, staring, menacing savages throng the path in wonderat a white face. A fu
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . atalogue out of whichour imagination produces pictures of luxury that, amid the wildness andrudeness of that barbarous land, seem more like the magicians workthan tangible realities, which await the worn-out traveller across six hun-dred miles of plains and mountains and rivers and swamps, where a suc-cession of naked, staring, menacing savages throng the path in wonderat a white face. A further description of some of the tropical birds mentioned byStanley will prove of interest to the reader who wishes to obtain a cor-rect idea of the wonders abounding in Africa. A Native Bird. Guinea-hens are peculiar to Africa, where they frequent woods on thebanks of rivers, in large flocks. They feed on grains, grasshoppers andother insects. When alarmed they attempt to escape by running, ratherthan by flight. The common guinea-hen is slate colored, covered allover with round white spots and is about the size of the common are very noisy and troublesome, always quarreling with the other. (591) 592 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. inmates of the poultry yard, and they are hard to raise from the delicacyof the young and their liability to disease. Their flesh is of fine flavor and their eggs are excellent. They aregreat feeders, requiring to be fed beyond what they can pick up by them-selves, and are apt to injure tender buds and flowers. The crested guinea-fowl or pintado has a crest of black feathers and the body black with bluespots; the mitred pintado has the head surmounted by a conical helmetand is black, white spotted. The four species of pintado hitherto knoM^n are all natives of Africa andof islands adjacent to the African coast. Their mode of feeding is similarto that of the domestic poultry. They scrape the ground with their feetin search of insects, worms or seeds
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