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TURKEY. 



HORNED T. 



Description. 



Meleagris fatyra, Lin, Syft. j. p. 269. 3. 

 Le Faifan cornu de Bengale, Brif. orn, App. p. 14. 

 Le Napaul, ou Faifan cornu, Buf. oif. ii. p. 36.2. 

 Horned Pheafant, Edtv. pi. 16. 



N° 17. 



CIZE between the Fowl and a Turkey. Bill brown : the 

 noftrils, Fore part of the head, and round the eyes, covered 

 with flender black hairy feathers : top of the head red : behind 

 each eye fprings a flefby callous blue fubfrance like a horn, tend- 

 ing backwards : on the fore part of the neck, and throat, is a* 

 loofe flap, of an exceeding fine blue colour, marked with orange 

 fpots ; the lower part of it befet with a few hairs ; down the 

 middle it is loofer than on the fides, being wrinkled : the breaft» 

 and upper part of the back, of a full red : the neck and breaffc 

 incline to orange : the other parts of the plumage and tail 

 rufous brown, marked all over with white fpots, encompaffed with, 

 black : the legs are whitifh, and furnifhed with a fpur behind 

 each. 



A head of this was fent to Dr. Mead from Bengal, with a, 

 drawing of the bird;; it was, called Napaul Pheafant. 



2, Meleagris criftata, Lin. Syft. i. p. 269. 2. 



GUAN T. Le-Dindon da Brefil, Brif. orn, i. p. 162.. 2. 



Jaciapema, Raii Syn. p. 56. 2. — Will. era. p. 165. pi. 28: 

 Guan, or Quan, Ediv. pi. 13. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. C I Z E of a Fowl : length two feet fix inches. Bill two inches- 

 long, and black : irides dirty orange : fides of the head co- 

 vered. 



