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red on the top near the head, pale on the remainder, nor is it 

 sharp at the end, but blunt. It is an acceptable bird for the 

 table. 



Of the domestic Getulian Hen. 



The domestic Getulian Hen, is a little smaller than our 

 own, in colour dull rufous above, pale below, with an erect 

 crest of disintegrated feathers on the head, a serrated comb, 

 low, simple and fleshy: more continuously noisy than ours 

 are, when they cluck: with the legs and feet feathered, for 

 the most part outwardly and behind as in Doves, that the 

 progress should not be hindered by feathers on the inside, 

 otherwise it is like the common kind. 



Of the Meleagris. 



The Meleagris is a very beautiful bird, like to a Pheasant 

 in bigness of body, form, beak and foot : provided with a 

 horny poll rising to an abrupt horny peak at the back, which 

 slopes down gently in front. Nature seems to have designed 

 to join and bind this to the lower part of the head by three 

 hanging lappets as it were; one on each side between the eye 

 and the ear, and also one on the middle of the forehead, all of 

 the same colour as the poll, so that it sits on the head in the 

 same way that the ducal cap does on that of the most noble 

 Duke of Venice, if that part which is usually in front be 

 turned behind. It is wrinkled round about below, but verti- 

 cally where it rises above. From the top of the neck to the 

 occiput spring certain erect black bristles (not feathers), 

 turned backwards. The eyes are wholly black, and equally 

 so are the eyelids and eyelashes around them, if you except 

 a mark on the top and back of each eyebrow. A kind of 

 callous flesh of a blood-red colour covers the lower part of the 

 head along its length ; nature has designed that it should be 

 folded, and should not hang forward like the wattle of the 

 Fowl, and being led backward end in two acute processes 

 free from the head. From this flesh rise on either side 

 caruncles, by which the nostrils are clothed round about, and 

 by which the head is divided in front from the rest of the 

 pale-coloured beak. The lower edges of these by the beak 

 are also folded slightly under each nostril. What intervenes 



