. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 400 TriE AGAMi. 1^: ri «( de la Borde, " betaken myfelf to my heels, buf they ran fafter, and always got before me; and when I Hopped, they (topped alfo. I know one which invariably follows all the *' ftrangers who enter its mailer's hoiife ; ac- â¢* companies them into the garden, takes as " many turns as they do, and attends them " back again *." As the habits and oeconomy of this bird were little known, I have thought proper to tranfcr
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 400 TriE AGAMi. 1^: ri «( de la Borde, " betaken myfelf to my heels, buf they ran fafter, and always got before me; and when I Hopped, they (topped alfo. I know one which invariably follows all the *' ftrangers who enter its mailer's hoiife ; ac- â¢* companies them into the garden, takes as " many turns as they do, and attends them " back again *." As the habits and oeconomy of this bird were little known, I have thought proper to tranfcribe the different accounts which I have received. It appears that of all the feathered tribes, the Agami is the tnoft attached to the ibciety of man; and in this refpecH: it is as eminently diftinguiflied above them all, as the dog is above the other quadrupeds. The difpofition of the Agami is the more remarkable, fmce it is the only bird that has a fecial turn; whereas fcvcial of the quadrupeds difcover attachment to man, though inferior in degree to that of the dop;. And is it not ftrange, that an animal, fo pecu- liarly formed for fociety, has never been do- mefticated ? Nothing can better fhew the im- mcnfe diftance between the civilized man and the rude favage, than the dominion obtained over the lower creation. The former has made the dog, the horfe, the ox, the camel, the ele- pliant, the rein-deer, &c. fubfervient to his \itility, or his pleafure: he has drawn together * Nou- comminiu-atcvl by M. ;'.? l;i Eordt, King's phyfician a^ , in > --6. the â 1 v.; I'. 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. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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