GALLINACE. lk 
P. bicalcaratus and thibetanus,Gm.; L’ Epéronnier, En\. 492 and 
493; Vieill. Galer. pl. 203 (The Chinquis), is much smaller, and 
has a short thick tuft on the head; each of the tarsi of the male is 
armed with two spurs; the coverts of the tail, which are not so long, 
are marked with double spots, and those of the scapulars with simple 
ones, presenting a dappled appearance*. A neighbouring species 
Polypl. albocellatum, T., is marked with simple blue spots, sur- 
rounded by a whitish circle. A third, Pol. chalcurum, T., has blue 
quills, but its coverts are only marked with fawn-coloured and black 
stripes. 
Lopnuornorus, Tem. 
The head surmounted with an aigrette similar to that of the Peacock, 
and a flat tail, the coverts of which are not prolonged, otherwise resem~ 
bling the preceding birds in the lustre of the metallic colours of the male. 
The circumference of the eye, and even the cheeks, are naked as in the 
Pheasants, and the tarsi are armed with strong spurs. A species is 
known from the mountains of the north of India. 
L.refulgens,T.; Phasianus impeyanus, Lath. Syn. Supp. pl. 114; 
Monaul, Sonnin.; Vieill. Gal. 208. Black; size of a Turkey; the 
aigrette and dorsal feathers of changeable colours, reflecting tints of 
gold, copper, sapphire, and emerald; quills of the tail red. The 
young and the female are brown, dashed with grey and fawn colour}. 
Meteacrist, Lin. 
The Turkeys have their head and upper part of the neck invested with 
a plumeless and papillated skin; an appendage under the throat, which 
hangs along the neck, and another conical one on the forehead, which, in 
the male, when excited by passion, becomes so inflated and long, as to 
hang over the point of the beak. From the lower part of the neck of the 
adult male hangs a tuft or tassel of stiff hairs; the coverts of the tail 
shorter and stiffer than in the Peacock can be erected and displayed in 
the same way. ‘The tarsi of the male are armed with weak spurs. But 
one species was known for a long time. 
Meleagris gallo-pavo, L.; Enl. 97. (The Common Turkey). 
Introduced into Europe from America in the sixteenth century. The 
size of this noble bird, and the goodness of its flesh, have rendered 
it extremely common. The Wild Turkey of America, Vieill. Gal. 
201, is of a greenish-brown, with a copper gloss. A second spe- 
cies, however, 
M. ocellata, Cuv. Mem. Mus. VI, pl. 1; Col. 112, has lately been 
* M.Temminck makes a genus of it by the name of PotyrLectRuM; Vieillot 
has changed it into DIPLECTRON. 
+ “Elian appears to have previously known and described it, Hist., anno L. XVI, 
c.2. Add the lophophore, Cuv., Tem. Col. pl. 1, with a pendent crest, black body, 
and the edges of the dorsal feathers white; discovered by M. Duvaucel. It is, per- 
haps, the Phasianus leucomelanos of Lath. The female is brown, edges of the feathers 
on the breast whitish. 
+ Mexeaanis is the Greek name of the Guinea- Hen, erroneously applied by Lin- 
nezus to the Turkey. 
