. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. fainting his female eighteen or twenty times in fuccellion in the moft humble pofture, bending fo low each time as to touch the ground, or the branch, with his bill, and he fighs the tendweft murmurs. The female appears at firft infenfible to his pafFion, but the fecret flame foon kindles, and nt laft yielding to the foft defires, {he gives vent to plaintive accents, -And when once ihe has diflbivecl in his embrace, fhe burns with a cciift.'.nt fire ; Ihe never
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. fainting his female eighteen or twenty times in fuccellion in the moft humble pofture, bending fo low each time as to touch the ground, or the branch, with his bill, and he fighs the tendweft murmurs. The female appears at firft infenfible to his pafFion, but the fecret flame foon kindles, and nt laft yielding to the foft defires, {he gives vent to plaintive accents, -And when once ihe has diflbivecl in his embrace, fhe burns with a cciift.'.nt fire ; Ihe never leaves the male, Ihe returns his kiffes and his carefles, and ftimulates him to renew the rapturous joys, till the bufmefs of hatching divides her attention, and invites to more ferions occupations. I fhall cite only one faâ: which manifefts the ardour of thefe birds * : if the males be put in one cage and the females i^ another, they will copulate together as if they were of different fexfis : the males indeed burn fooner and whh more intenfity than the females. Confinement therefore only deranges nature, out cannot ex- tinguifh it ! ... ••: ',. In the fpecies of the Turtle we are acquainted with two confiant varieties. The firft is, the * The Turtle, M. Roy writes me, differs from the Ring Pigeon anj the Common Pigeon, by its diflblutenefs and inconAancy, notwithftanding its reputation for the contrary qualities. Not only females that are fliut up in voleries receive promifcuoufly all the males; but I have feen wild ones, which were neither con- ftr;iined nor corrupted by domellication, give favours to two fuc- ccfiively on the fame branch. ^. ' . \ - Common. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Ca
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