﻿TURKEY. 677 



Its coverts waved black and white : on the bread a tuft of black- 

 hairs full eight inches in length. In other things refembling 

 Turkeys in common ; fuch as having a bare, red, carunculated 

 head and neck j a flefhy dilatable appendage hanging over the 

 bill s and a fhort, flout, blunt fpur, or rather knob, at the back 

 part of the leg. 



The female want9 the tuft of hairs on the bread for the moft Female 

 partj though it is now and then feen in an old hen, but fcarce 

 above half the length or fulnefs as in the male. The legs of the 

 femchzSHo want the fpur. 



A bird, anfwering the above defcription, is in the Leverian 



Mufeum, which is faid to have come from Georgia. 



It is without a doubt that 'Turkies originally came from Ame- Place an» 

 . * 1 r ■ ■> 1 1 •■■ . fl ■ i 1 /-1 Manners, 



rtca , and are found to be largeft in the northern parts or that 



continent -j-, where they are frequently met with by hundreds in a 

 flock : in the day-time frequent the woods, where they feed 

 on acorns, and return at night to the fwamps to rooft, which they 

 do on the trees. They are frequently taken by means of dogs, 

 though they run fafter for a time 3 but the dogs perfifting in the 

 purfuit, the birds foon grow fatigued, and take to the higheft 

 trees, where they will fufFer themfelves to be fhot one after an- 

 other, if within reach of the markfman. 



* Fermin obferves s that they weigh twenty-five pounds at Surinam. Catejby 

 fpeaks of thirty pounds and upwards in Carolina j though others mention forty 

 or more. In this climate we have not met with one of a greater weight than. 

 twenty -five, and even that uncommon. 



t Phil. Tranf, — Introduced, as is fuppofed, into England about the year 

 1524. It is .certain that the name does not occur in the lift of Arc'hbijhep Newl's 

 Feaft, nor is it mentioned in the Earl of Northumberland 's Houfehold £ook, fo late 

 .as the year 15 12. 



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