﻿TURKEY. 683 



wings are fhort : the tail long; conMs of twelve feathers, which 

 are even at the end, and in common is pendent, but can be lifted 

 up, and fpread out like that of the "Turkey : the legs and toes of 

 a bright red : claws crooked, and fomewhat fharp*. 



This fpecies is common in the woods of Guiana, at a diftance PtA.ce and 

 from the fea, though it is much lefs known than could be imagin- 

 ed : found in fmall flocks, for the mod part, except in breeding- 

 time, when it is only feen by pairs, and then frequently on the 

 ground, or on low fhrubs 3 at other times on high trees, where 

 it roofts of nights. The female makes her neft on fome low 

 bulhy tree, as near the trunk as poffible, and lays three or four 

 eggs. When the young are hatched, they defcend witfi their 

 mother, after ten or twelve days. The mother acts as other 

 fowls, fcratching on the ground like a Hen, and brooding the 

 young, which quit their nurfe the moment they can fhift for 

 themfelves. They have two broods in a year j one in December 

 or January, the other in May or June. 



The beft time of finding thefe birds is morning or evening, 

 being then met with on fuch trees whole fruit they feed on, and 

 are difcovered by fome of it falling to the ground. The young 

 birds are eafily tamed, and feldom forfake the places where they 

 have been brought up : they need not be houfed, as they prefer 

 the roofting on tall trees to any other place. Their cry is not 



• In a collection from Cayenne was a bird, I believe, of this very fpecies : it 

 was twenty- eight inches long: bill like that of a Fowl; brown, and rather 

 hooked : round the eye bare : head crefted : feathers of the fore part of thfc- 

 neck tipped with white : breaft and belly rufous brown : the reil of the plumage 

 greenifh brown : tail eleven inches long, and rounded at the end : the quills 

 juft reach beyond the rump : legs brown : claws hooked. 



4 S a inharmonious, 



