Crass II. GUINEA HEN, &c. 
_of the antients, came originally from 4frica*, We 
are much furprized how Be/on and other learned or- 
nithologifts could poffibly imagine them to have 
been the fame with our Turkies; fince the defcrip- 
tions of the meleagri left us by Atheneus and other 
antient writers, agree fo exactly with the Guinea hen, 
as to take away (as we fhould imagine) all power 
of miftake. Arheneus (after Clytus Milefius, a dif- 
ciple of Ariftotle) defcribes their nature, form and 
colors: he tells us, ‘“* They want natural affection 
“towards their young; that their head is naked, 
“* and that on the top of it is a hard round body 
*‘ like a peg or nail; that from the cheeks hangs a 
“red piece of flefh hike a beard; thatit has no wat- 
“ tles like the common poultry; that the feathers 
“ are black fpotted with white; that they have no 
“<fpurs; and that both fexes are fo like, as not to 
“ be diftinguifhed by the fight--”. Varro and Ph- 
* Bofman’s hiftory of Guinea. 248. Voyages de Marchais Ill. 
323- Barbot’s defer. Guinea. Churchill’s coll. voy. v. 29. 
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THEN HOLL GKEVT OC mapamrngics Os cicly ai Snrsion Tolg Aspeoiw" 
Gio na Oudicngitov tsi TO Tav persaygiday yv@-. Atheneus, 
655. 
Wot, I. ; UW a) 
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