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as they are able to shift for themselves : they have two broods in a 

 year, one in December or January, the other in May or June. It is 

 by some called the Brazilian Turkey, and the flesh is much esteemed. 



These birds are met with in the morning or evening on such trees 

 as they frequent for the sake of the fruit, and may be discovered by 

 some of it falling to the ground ; the young are easily tamed, seldom 

 forsake the places in which they have been brought up, and give 

 very little trouble, as they prefer the roosting on tall trees to any 

 other place ; its cry is not inharmonious, excepting when irritated, 

 or wounded, when it is harsh and loud ; the flesh is much esteemed. 

 The windpipe in this species is of a singular construction, passing 

 down the neck to the entrance of the breast, where it rises on the 

 outside of the flesh under the skin, and after proceeding a little way 

 downwards, returns, and enters the cavity of the chest. It is kept 

 in its place on the outside by a muscular ligament, which is per- 

 ceivable quite to the breast bone. This circumstance is found in 

 both sexes, and proves, that it differs essentially from the Yacou, 

 which has no uncommon elongation of the windpipe in either sex. 



This is probably the bird mentioned by Bancroft, as common at 

 Guiana, under the name of Marrodee, which he says, is wholly 

 brownish black ; bill black ; legs grey ; that they perch on trees, 

 and the Indians imitate their cry so exactly, as to lead to the dis- 

 covery of the places they are in, by their answering it : the flesh 

 compared to that of a Fowl. 



One of these, which came under my view, from Cayenne, was 

 twenty-eight inches long. The bill as in the Fowl, brown, rather 

 hooked ; round the eye bare ; head crested ; feathers of the neck 

 before tipped with white ; breast and belly rufous brown ; the rest of 

 the plumage greenish brown ; tail eleven inches long, and rounded at 

 the end ; the quills reach just beyond the rump; legs brown, claws 

 hooked. 



Another in Mr. Mc. Leay's collection, was twenty-two inches 

 long. The head chestnut, tinged with violet ; plumage above red 



