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HONDURAS TURKEY.— i\/p;('(5jri« nr.eUnta. 



tliR neclc are carmine. The hairy tiift on the breast is not seen in this species. The 

 feathers are finely webbed, rounded, and scale-like, and their colours are truly splentlid. 

 On the lower part of the neck and upper part of the back th(>y are lironze-green banded 

 with black and gold ; and towards the tail tlie green assumes a Hashing emerald hue, and 

 the gold band becomes wider and darker with fiery-red, like the throat of the ruby- 

 throated luunming-bird. The tail-coverts are furnished with bold " eyes " at their tips, 

 and the lower parts of the body are also bronze-green and black, but without the lustre of 

 the upper parts. The primary feathers of the wings are black edged with white, and the 

 secondaries have the outer welis wholly white. The greater coverts are rich chestnut, and 

 the legs and feet are lake. In size this bird is rather smaller than the common turkey. 



The prettily spotted Guinka Fowl or Pintado is, although now domesticated in 

 England, a native of Africa, and M'ith some exceptions, has mucli of the habits and 

 propensities of the turkey, which bird it evidently represents. 



Like the turkey, it is a confirmed wanderer, travelling contintially during the day, and 

 perching on the branches to roost at night It differs from the turkey however in its 

 choice of locality, for whereas the turkey always keeps itself to the driest S]iots, sluuniing 

 the low-lyirg lands as fatal to its young, tlie Guinea Fowl has a special liking for the 

 marshes, and may generally be found among the most humid sjiots or upon the banks of 

 rivers. It is a gregarious bird, assembling in large bands which traverse the country in 

 company. The flight of the Pintado is seldom extended to any great distance, as the 

 liody is heavy in ]iroportion to the power of wing, and the bird is forced to take short and 

 hasty flights with much flap]ung of the wings, and to trust nio.^' ly to its legs for loco- 



