﻿6*-& TURKEY. 



Inharmonious, except -when irritated or wounded, when it h 

 harfh and loud. The flefh is much efteemed. 



Buffon fuppofes this bird to be the female of the Tacou, or at 

 lead a variety; but that this cannot be, the anatomical inflection 

 will at oace determine. The wwdpipfpf this bird has a lingular 

 conftruclion, paffing along the neck to the entrance of the 

 breaft, where it rifes on the outfide of the flefh, and', after going 

 a little way downwards, returns, and then paffes into the cavity 

 to the lungs. It is kept in its place on the outfide by a mufcular 

 ligament, which is perceivable quite to the breaft-bone. This 

 is found to be the cafe in both male and female, and plainly, 

 proves that it differs from the Xacou, whofe windpipe has no fuch 

 circumvolution in either fex» 



If this be the bird mentioned by Fermln *, he fays that the 

 creft is cuneiform, and of a black and white colour ; and ob* 

 ferves that they are fcarce at Surinam f . 



Bancroft mentions a bird of Guiana by the name of Marrodee>, 

 which he fays is wholly of afbrownifh black : the bill the fame : 

 legs grey. Thefe, he fay3, are common, and make a noife not 

 unlike the name given it, perching on trees. The Indians imi*- 

 tate their cry fo exactly, as to lead to the difcovery of the place 

 the birds are in, by their anfwering it. The flefh of them is 

 like that of a Fowl- I think, it can be no other than th« 

 Mar ail. 



* Hift. of Guiana, p. 176; 



f It does not feem quite certain, whether he means this {pedes orthe Iafit 



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