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looking bird, armed with spurs, and having 

 the power of expanding his large tail in the 

 manner of a peacock. His head is sur- 

 mounted by a small, red, fleshy protuberance 

 growing over the upper bill, v/hich muscle, 

 either in love or anger, becomes of a bright 

 scarlet, and is extended so far as to mnke 

 it fall two or three inches below the bill ; 

 underneath which, there is also a red mem- 

 brane, hanging down to about a third part 

 of the neck, and a tuft of black hair five or 

 six inches long pendent from the breast. 

 The hen-turkey is much smaller than the 

 male ; her head being in proportion to her 

 body, and, like the upper part of her neck, 

 naked of feathers, but covered with little 

 pimples of a palish red colour ; she wants 

 the pendulous wattles of the cock, and is in- 

 capable of erecting the tail. 



Unlike the various breeds which compose 

 the tribe of gallinaceous fowls, the turkey 

 shows no difference but in the colour of its 

 plumage, which is either pure black or white ; 

 those of the cinnamon, or copper colour, which 

 were formerly much esteemed, having now 

 generally disappeared — in consequence, as it 



