128 TURKEY. 



It is pleasing to see with what facility the drivers manage them 

 by means of a piece of red rag, fastened to the end of a stick ; which, 

 from their antipathy to it as a colour, acts on them as a scourge to a 

 quadruped. 



It is needless to specify here the places where the Turkey is now 

 found, as it appears to be domesticated every where ; and in France 

 those of Languedoc and Provence are in as high estimation, as those 

 of Norfolk are in England. 



The note of the Turkey, if so it can be called, is a kind of 

 guttural scream, several times repeated, which is termed a gobble, 

 but that which the hen utters, when in fear for the safety of the 

 young ones, from a Kite, or other Bird of Prey, being in view, is 

 compared by Dr. Darwin to the words Koe-ut Koe-ut.* 



It is needless to say more here, as the history of this bird is treated 

 of at large in the Histoire des Ois. and not less scientifically in the 

 71st Vol. of the Phil. Trans.^ by my late friend, T. Pennant, Esq. 

 above referred to, and the mode of rearing them in a state of domes- 

 tication largely discussed by M. Temminck, in tfhe 2d volume of the 

 Histoire des Pigeons et Gallinacees. 



The Varieties of this Species which have arisen from domestica- 

 tion, are not easily recorded ; the most common are dark grey in 

 various shades, inclining to black, or barred dusky white and black. 



There is also a beautiful Variety of a fine deep copper-colour : 

 the greater quills pure white; the tail dirty white ; and is, when old, 

 and in full plumage, a most beautiful bird. 



Another Variety with the plumage wholly white, % is now not 

 un frequent ; it is a very handsome bird, and was once esteemed as a 



* Zoonom. p. 153. 



f See also in the same Transactions for 1807, p. I ll a Dissertation on the Stomach of 

 the Turkey, by Sir E. Home, Bart. 



* The packet of hairs on the breast excepted, which is black throughout all the Varie- 

 ties, and as conspicuous in this as in any of the others. 



