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The Stomach is furnished internally with a cartilaginous 

 tissue, less hard than that of the cock. The trachea widens a 

 little into a funnel towards the upper larynx ; in its interior 

 is an osseous rounded tubercle. 



To the short notice of the Honduras Turkey (of which the 

 opposite is a figure) in the text, we must add the following 

 particulars. It is of the same size as the common turkey ; 

 the bill is the same. The head and neck, as far as the middle, 

 is bare. The forehead, crown, and about the eyes, bare, and 

 carunculated and red. It has an elongated appendage on the 

 forehead. The feathers of the back are fine blue, undulated, 

 margined near the ends with black, and fringed at the tops 

 with gilded brown. Over the shoulders is a large patch of 

 copper-colour, with gloss. The wings are mottled, and 

 mixed with blackish and white ; the twelve feathers of the 

 tail are marbled, and barred blackish and grey, with the 

 ends gilded brown. The legs are stout, brown-red, and 

 armed on the hinder part with a spur, an inch and a half 

 in length, and pointed. The very great difference of 

 plumage seems to mark this bird as a distinct species from 

 the American turkey. 



The Pintado is the bird formerly known to the ancients 

 under the name of Meleagris, or Numidian Fowl. We call 

 them vulgarly in this country Guinea Fowl. We have 

 already noticed the improper application of the classical name 

 to the turkey, a bird not known in the old world before the 

 discovery of America. 



The pintado appears to have been rare enough, though it 

 was generally known in the time of the ancients. It was 

 formerly reared in Rome with much care, though the species 

 was afterwards lost in Europe. These birds were not edu- 

 cated in any abundance in any country until after the 

 Europeans visited the western shores of Africa, which are 

 the peculiar habitat of the Numida Meleagris. From thence 



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