ORDER GALLINyE. l-'J 



Also has been described : 



Ency. Met. Suppl. t. 237, f- 1- 



Lophophorus Wallichii. Hardwicke. Lin. Trans. 

 XV. 166. 



Orbit, large, naked red ; crest of few, recurved 

 feathers ; head, slate-coloured ; neck, whitish ; upper 

 part of the back and breast, whitish, black banded ; 

 lores, wings, sides, and rump, golden-brown, black 

 lunuled ; tail, compressed, graduated, yellow-brown, 

 blackish-banded ; spur, sharp ; bill of Almorah, called 

 cheer. Length, two and a half feet. 



The TuRKiES.* (Meleagris, Lin.) 



Have the head and the back of the neck flirnished 

 with a denuded skin, which is altogether mammi- 

 formed ; under the throat is an appendage which 

 hangs along the neck, and on the front is another, 

 of a conical shape, which in the male bird is blown 

 out and elongated in the moments of irritation, hang- 

 ing then above the point of the bill. On the under 

 part of the neck of the adult male, is a pencil of 

 stiff hairs. The coverts of the tail are shorter, and 

 stiffer than in the peacock ; and erect themselves in 

 the manner of the peacock to make a circle. The 

 males have weak spurs. 



Only one species was for a long time known. 



♦ Meleagris is the Greek name of the Guinea fowl, and is, therefore, im- 

 properly applied to the turkey by Linnaeus. 



