6 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
Their peculiar voice, which no one can forget who has once 
heard it, is said sometimes to produce an almost stunning 
noise when these flocks (and they live in flocks) assemble in 
hundreds, as they occasionally are said to do. The Crested 
species of West Africa (JV. cristata) is a handsome bird. 
America has contributed yet another denizen to our farm- 
Fig. 2. 

The Horned Tragopan (Ceriornis satyra). 
yards, which have thus been peopled from no less than three 
foreign Continents. The discoveries of Columbus and Amerigo 
Vespucci first made known to us the existence of the Turkey, 
which was introduced into England towards the close of 
the reign of Henry VIII., and probably gained its English 
appellation from its having been brought to England in ships 
