Guinea fowl

guinea fowl guinea-fowl guineafowl English Noun ~ + * en guinea fowl. en 29 July 1786 John Matthews Letter IV. A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone, on the Coast of Africa;Containing an Account of the Trade and Productions of the Country, and of the Civil and Religious Customs and Manners of the People; in a Series of Letters to a Friend in England. By John Matthews, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy; during His Residence in That Country in the Years 1785, 1786, and 1787. With an Additional Letter on the Subject of the African Slave Trade. Also, a Chart of Part of the Coast of Africa, from Cape St. Ann, to the River Rionoonas; with a View of the Island Bananas. London Printed for Benjamin White and Son, at Horace’s Head[,] Fleet-Street; and John Sewell,Cornhill. 1788 48–49 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_a-voyage-to-the-river-si_matthews-john-lieutena_1788/page/n56/mode/1up 4703352 And it is not a little ſurpriſing that the Guinea fowls, which are real natives of the country, and are ſoon domeſticated, ſhould be neglected by them; for it is never ſeen tame but in poſſeſſion of the Whites, or of thoſe who adopt their manners. en 1822 Bonington Moubray pseudonym; John Lawrence Pintada A Practical Treatise on Breeding, Rearing, and Fattening, All Kinds of Domestic Poultry, Pheasants, Pigeons, and RabbitsIncluding an Interesting Account of the Egyptian Method of Hatching Eggs by Artificial Heat, with the Author’s Experiments Thereon. Fourth Edition; with Additions, on the Breeding, Feeding, and Management of Swine—on Milch Cows for the Family Dairy—and on Bees. From Memoranda Made during Forty Years’ Practice. 4th London Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,Paternoster Row. IV 42 https://archive.org/details/apracticaltreat02lawrgoog/page/n66/mode/1up 5233880 The Guinea fowls assimilate perfectly with the common species, in habits and in kinds of food; but have this peculiarity, that the cocks and hens are so nearly alike, it is difficult to distinguish them. en 2006 w:John McPhee The Ships of Port Revel Uncommon Carriers New York, N.Y. w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 52 https://archive.org/details/uncommoncarriers00mcph/page/52/mode/1up 978-0-374-28039-0 In the Bonnoit’s felicitous dining room, over duck pâtés, frogs’ legs, écrevisses on lettuce like trout just caught and lying in green grass, pommes de terre dauphinoises, mussel soup, Guinea fowl, girolles avec sauce à la crème, quenelles de brochet, poached-egg salad, or lapin braisée, the skippers exchange superstitions of their own. en 2012 J. F. Glubka Heat Lightning https://www.jstor.org/stable/43473236 w:Southwest Review 97 4 Dallas, Tex. w:Southern Methodist University 525 0038-4712 43473236 4670628 A tornado hit Tomahawk in ’89, but took only a pen full of Guinea fowl and the steeple off the Lutheran church.