TURKEY. 125 



GENUS LVI— TURKEY. 



1 American Turkey || 2 Honduras Turkey 



.DILL convex, short, and strong. 



Nostrils open, pointed at the end, lodged in a membrane. 



Head and neck, or throat, covered with naked, carunculated 

 flesh ; the skin of the last flaccid, and membranaceous. 



Tail broad, extensile. 



Legs with a blunt spur behind. 



1— AMERICAN TURKEY. 



Meleagris Gallopavo, Ind.Orn. ii. 618. Lin. i. 268. Faun. suec. No. 198. Gm. Lin.'t. 



732. Bris.l 158. t.16. Id. 8vo. i. 41. Rail, hi. A. 3. Id. 182. p. 16. Will. 



113. t. 27. Phil. Trans, xviii. 992. Id.lxxi. 67. Faun. arag. 80. Borowsk, ii. 



168. Frisch, t. 122. Gerin. ii. 75. t. 222.-226. Schaf. el. Orn. t. 37. Klein, 



112.1. Jd. Ov. 32. t. 13. f. 4. Daud.Om. i. p. 95. pi. 7. Skeleton. Johnst. Av. 



pi. 24. f. 1. 2. /d. pi. 29. f. 1. Temm. Peg-. # Gall. 8vo. ii. 381.— and P/. Anat. 



iii. f.15. 

 Gallina Indiana, Zinnan. Uov. 27. t. 2. f. 3. Rom. Orn. i. 47. t. 5. 

 Der Kalekutische Hahn, Na.ty.rf. xvii. 66. 

 II Gallinacio, Celt. Uc. Sard. II 1. 



Der Gemeine Truthahn, Schmid, Vog. p. 96. t. 82. Bechst. Deutsch. iii. 1112. t. 41. 

 Le Dindon, Bn/. ii. 132. pi. 5. Id. Sonnin. v. 228. pi. 38. f. 1. PL enl. 97. 

 American Turkey, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 178. Gen. Syn. iv. 676. Bartr. Trav. p. 288. 

 Domestic Turkey, Gen. Syn. iv>. 679. £r. Zool. i. No. 97. HW/. Engl. 159. pi. 27. 



Albin, iii. pi. 35. Bewick, i. pi. in p. 286. 



THE Turkey, in its domesticated state, rarely exceeds three feet 

 and a half in length, and four feet and a half in breadth ; as to size 

 and weight, it varies very considerably ; 14 or 15 pounds is reckoned 

 a very fine bird, but it has been known, though rarely, to exceed 25 

 pounds. The bill is formed not unlike that of the Peacock, but 

 stronger ; the head and neck not only destitute of feathers, but the 



