﻿TURKEY, 



679 



Meleagris Gallopavo, Lin. Syft. i. p. 268. I. $.—Frifch. t. 122. 



LeDindon, Brif. orn, i. p. 158. 1. pi. 16. — Buf. oif. ii, p. 13Z. pi. 3. — Var. A. 



PL enl. 97. DOMESTIC T. 



Turkey, Rail Syn. p. 51. A, 3. — Will. om. p. 159. pi. 27. — Alhin. iii. pi. 35. 



Br. Zool. i. N" 97 » — Phil. Tranf. vol. lxxii. p. 67. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



ESCRIPTION. 



FINDER this head may be comprehended all the varieties D 



which have arifen from domeftication. The moft common 

 is dark grey, inclining to black, cr barred duflcy white and 

 black. 



There is alfo a beautiful variety of a fine deep £<?£/><?r-colour, COPPER-CO- 

 with the greater quills pure white ; the tail of a dirty white ; and LOURED, 

 is, when old, a moft beautiful bird. 



A variety with a pure white plumage * is alfo now not unfre- 

 quent, and appears very beautiful ; it was once efteemed as a 

 great rarity, and the breed fuppofed originally to have arifen in 



Holland-f. 



In the Leverian Mufeum is alfo a common 'Turkey, with a large 

 tuft of feathers on its head, much refembling one figured by 

 Albin %. 



* The packet of long hairs on the bread excepted, which is black throughout 

 all the varieties, and is as confpicuous in this as any of the others. 



f Phil. Tranf. — This probably is not a late variety, as a pair of white Turh'es 

 are reprefented going into Noah's ark, among the reft, in a painting of BaJ/an §. 

 — Barringt. Mi/c. 



X Vol. ii. PL35.— Brif. orn. ii. p. 161. 



§ Which of the two BaJJ'atit is not faid ; one of them died in the year 1 540, the other in 1 594. 



Meleagris 



WHITE. 



CRESTED. 



