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ORDER III. GALLINACEOUS. 



XVI. TURKEY. Gen. Birds, XXXI. 



Turkey, Joffelyn's voy. <)<).— Rarities, %.— Clayton's Firgin.~Ph. Tr. Abridg. iil. 17S. Wit». 



590. — Lanufon, 149. — Catejby, App. xliv. 

 Le Coc d'Inde, Belon, 248. 

 Gallo-pavus, G^?r, aift 481.— /if««. 56. 

 Gallo-pavo, Aldro'v.a'v. ii. 18. 

 Gallo-pavo, the Turkey A. 3. 

 Gallo-pavo Sylveftris No'va Anglia, a New England Wild Turkey, Rail. Sjn. 



av. 51. 

 Meleagrjs Gallo-pavo, M. capite caruncula frontali gularique, maris peftore bar- 



bato, Lin. Syft. 268. 

 Le Dindon, De Bufon, ii. 132. — Brijfon, i. 158. tab. xvi. — PI. Enl.gj. 



TWith the charafters defcribed in the definition of the genus. DEscRimotf. 

 • Color of the plumage dark, glolTed with variable copper co- 

 lor and green : coverts of the wings, and the quil-feathers, barred 

 with black and white. Tail confifts of two orders ; the upper, or Tail. 



fhorter, very elegant ; the ground color a bright bay ; the middle 

 feathers marked with numerous bars of fhining black and green ; 

 the greateft part of the exterior feathers of the fame ground with the 

 others, marked with only three broad bands of mallard green, placed 

 remote from each other ; the two next are colored like thofe of the 

 middle ; but the end is plain, and crofled with a fingle bar, like the 

 exterior. 



The longer, or lower order, were of a rufty white color, mottled 

 with black, and crofled with numerous narrow waved lines of the 

 fame color, and near the end with a broad band. 



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