. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . isturbed or injured them. In the degeneratedays of Rome, the tongues and brains of peacocksformed a favourite dish at the imperial table. The pea-fowl in general roosts on the tallest trees;but their nest is formed on the ground in a retired spot,and consists of a few sticks and twigs, with leaves. 92 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. In 1 Kings x. 22, and in 2 Chron. ix. 21, peacocks
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . isturbed or injured them. In the degeneratedays of Rome, the tongues and brains of peacocksformed a favourite dish at the imperial table. The pea-fowl in general roosts on the tallest trees;but their nest is formed on the ground in a retired spot,and consists of a few sticks and twigs, with leaves. 92 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. In 1 Kings x. 22, and in 2 Chron. ix. 21, peacocksare mentioned as having been brought, with otheroriental productions, to king Solomon by his fleet fromTarshish. In Job xxxix. 13, the plumage of this bird is refer-red to, as a display of the creative power and wisdomof God : Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the pea-cocks ? White peacocks are occasionally to be met with, butare merely an accidental variety, and not a distinct spe-cies. In 1783, a pair of common peacocks, producedat Gentillis, near Paris, four young ones, two of whichpossessed the plumage of their parents, and two wereentirely white. THE DOMESTIC FOWL, Order—Ra&ores, or Gallinaceous, ^ ,_. is of Indian origin, of which the principal species arethe Javanese and the wild cock of Sonnerat. We have THE DOMESTIC FOWL. 93 no direct evidence that it was known to the Jews be-fore the Babylonish captivity ; but in the New Testa-ment there are several allusions to the crowing of thecock, besides the reference to the tender care shownby the hen to her young ones in our Saviours patheticlamentation over Jerusalem. In Matt. xxvi. 34, our Lord is represented as saying,that before the cock crew Peter should deny himthrice; so Luke xxii. 34, and John xih. 39. But,according to Mark xiv. 30, he says, Before the cockcrow twice thou shalt deny me thrice. These textsmay be very satisfactorily reconciled by observing,that ancient authors, both Greek and Latin, mentiontwo cock-cro
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