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Demoiselle

a species of crane gray color, with the outer portion of the dingy black; a tuft of feathers from the breast blackish. It is found all over Africa, whence it finds its way occasionally to Europe and India.

It is called also the Numidian crane. vr), a French mathematician; born in

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