TURKEYS, PEAFOWLS, GUINEAS, PHEASANTS 



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are found in exhibitions. The male does not get his full adult 

 plumage until the third year. 



Guineas. Guinea fowls are natives of Africa. They are supposed 

 to have been brought to America by the Spaniards very soon after 

 the discovery of the New World. The familiar varieties are the 

 common gray, or Pearl Guinea, which has bluish-gray plumage with 

 white spots, and the White Guinea. Cross-bred birds from these 





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Fig. 465. Pearl Guinea Fowl at Brook View Farm, Newbury, Massachusetts 



two varieties sometimes show part white and part gray with white 

 spots. There is said to be also a white variety with dark spots. 



Pheasants. The most familiar variety of pheasant is the Ring- 

 neck, so called from a white ring about the neck of birds of the 

 variety as they originally came from China. In England the stock 

 has been crossed with other varieties, and in what are known as 

 English Ringnecks and English Pheasants the ring is usually 

 absent and there are other differences due to crossing with other 

 varieties. These are all comparatively plain birds. There are many 

 other varieties, some of which are of strikingly beautiful plumage. 



