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Feathers of the lower parts of the breast of a deep crow-color, 

 and tipped with rich golden bronze. JNo pectoral appendage. 

 Flank and thigh-coverts rich golden green, margined with a line 

 of black near the tip, and tipped with golden bronze. Feathers 

 on shoulder of a rich golden green, fringed with black. The 

 greater wing coverts are of rich golden bronze. The outer- 

 most secondaries have the principal part of the outer webs 

 pure white, the bands in the centre not appearing when the 

 wings are closed ; the undermost are crossed with glossy green- 

 ish black bands, the shafts are black. The primaries are black, 

 marked obliquely with white, the marks running in the course 

 "of the barbs on each side of the shaft. The first of the pri- 

 maries is the shortest, and the sixth longest. The tail con- 

 sists of eighteen feathers rounded at the tips, and beautifully 

 marked in their whole extent with alternate white and black 

 wavy lines, and having an eye in the end of each, somewhat 

 like those in the tail of the Peacock ; each of the tail feathers 

 is tipped with a band six-eighths of an inch wide, of golden 

 bronze. The length of the longest tail feather is about 15 

 inches, and that of the shortest is about 11 inches : the tail is 

 cuneiform. The tail coverts are beautifully marked with the 

 same wavy lines as the tail itself, and at the tip of each feather 

 is a beautiful spot formed by first a scolloped line of black, 

 then a beautiful patch of golden green, six-eighths of an inch 

 deep, then another line of black, and then a broad tip of golden 

 bronze five-eights of an inch deep. These eyes in the tip of 

 the tail, of the tail coverts, and on the coverts at the root of 

 the tail, form three curved rows, which give a very beautiful 

 appearance to the tail. The feet and tarsus are stoutj and of 

 a purplish red color. Tarsus five inches and three-eighths long. 

 Middle toe two inches and six-eighths long. Spur strong and 

 sharp, one inch and three-eighths long, (sometimes longer.) 

 The anatomy much the same as in the common turkey. Fe- 

 male smaller, and much less brilliant. 



