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Genus XLVIII. TURKEY, 



N° i. American T. N° 3. Guan T. 



Var. A. Domeftic T, 4. Yacou T. 



2. Horned T. 5. Marail T\ 



THE bill in this genus is convex, inert, and ftrong, 

 Noftrils open, pointed at one end, lodged in a mem- 

 brane. 



Head and neck, or throat (fometimes all three), covered with 

 naked carunculated flefli ; the fkin of the laft flaccid, and raem= 

 branaceous. 



Tail broad, extendible. 



.,_ Meleagris Gallopavo, Lin.Sjfl.i. p. 268. 1.— Faun. Suec. N° 198. 



AMERICAN T. Le Dindon fauvage, Brif. am. i. p. i6z. B. 



New England Wild Turkey, Rait Syn. p. 51. i.—Phil.Trauf. vol. Ixxii. p. 67. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. HP H E Turkey, in its domefticated ftate, feldom exceeds three 

 feet and a half in length ; but in that of nature is considerably 

 larger, and greatly inclines to black, which in fome lights appears 

 of the moft refplendent gilded copper-colour, in others, of a 

 glofly green, and in fome parts inclining to purple : greater 

 wing coverts glofly brown : quills green gold, growing black 

 towards the end, and white at the tips : the tail confifts of 

 eighteen brown feathers mottled with black 3 the ends black; 



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