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great rarity, the breed supposed originally to have arisen in Holland.* 

 In the Leverian Museum was also a Common Turkey with a large tuft 

 of feathers on the head, much resembling one figured by Albin,f 

 and in the same place a fine specimen under the name of Georgian 

 Turkey, which differed from the usual Black Sort, in having the most 

 resplendent gloss in the plumage, varying in different situations of 

 light, but for the most part every feather had a black margin; in this 

 the green, and copper bronzes were chiefly conspicuous. This, what- 

 ever place originally produced it, was formerly held in great esteem, 

 and sold dear, but is now very rare, from having mixed with the 

 Common Black Sort, the produce of which, although gaining part 

 of the gloss of the Georgian, is so very inferior to it, as to be little 

 more esteemed than the Common Sort. 



2— HONDURAS TURKEY. 



SIZE of the first. Bill as in that bird ; head and neck as far 

 as the middle, bare ; the forehead, crown, and about the eyes 

 bare, red, and carunculated ; with an elongated appendage over the 

 forehead ; feathers of the back in waves of fine blue, margined near 

 the ends with black, and fringed at the tips with gilded brown ; over 

 the shoulders a large patch of copper glossed ; wings mottled, and 

 mixed with blackish and white; tail of twelve feathers, J marbled 

 and barred blackish and grey, with the ends gilded brown as in the 



* Phil. Trans, lxxi. p. 68. This is probably an early Variety, as a pair of White 

 Turkies are represented going into Noah's Ark, among others, in a Painting of Bassan.* 



t Vol. ii. pi. 35. See Bris. ii. p. 161. Schaef. el. t. 37. Gerin. pi. 224. 



% We are by no means certain that this was the original number ; indeed it may rather 

 be supposed to the contrary, as in all the Gallinaceous Tribe, they are considerably more 



numerous. 



* This Painter was born in the year 1510, and died in 1592. 



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