(32) 

 The Guiny Hen. Gallina Africana. 



Numb. XXXV, 



T S Weight was two Pound ; Length from the Point of the Bill to 

 the End of the Tail two Foot; Breadth, when the Wings were ex- 

 panded, thirty two Inches. It is for Bignefs equal to the common He/^^ but 

 its Neck longer and flenderer : they are (iommonly of a dark Afli-co- 

 lour inclining to a black, all over chequered with white Spots; this 

 Bird was a Hen ; , the Breaft white, fpotted with large Spots of black 

 .chequered with white: its Bill red, towards the Point of a horn Colour; 

 the Top of the Head of a dusky Colour, on which grew a horny Sub- 

 fiance of the fame Colour; the Pupil of the Eye black, the Irides 

 •white; round the Eye on each Side of the Head was of a flefh Colour 

 intermixed with a pale blue ; the back Part of the Head of a dilute redifh 

 brown, on which grew black Briftles ftanding upright; the Bottom of the 

 Head on both Sides all along is taken up by a Kind of a callous Flefh of 

 a fanguine Colour, which, that it might not hang down like Gills or 

 Wattles, Nature hath taken care to turn backward and fold up, fo that it 

 .ends in two acute Procefl'es ; from this Flefli arife up on both Sides certain. 

 Caruncles, wherewith the Noftrils are invented round, and the Head in 

 the fore Part feparated from the Bill, of the lower Edges are lightly re- 

 fleded back under bothNoftiils; what is between the Crown and this 

 FlejQi on the right and left Side, is marked with a double fcaly Incifure, 

 but behind with none. 



The Colour under the Jaws or Throat is a dark purple; the Neck more 

 dilute, and fprinkled with fniall white Specks. The Number of quill 

 Feathers was twenty three, the firft four of which were white, as were 

 alfo four of the firft Row of covert Feathers ; all the whole Bird, ex- 

 cepting the Breaft, was of a dusky black, chequered with white Spots: 

 the Legs were of a redifL flefh Colour, in fome dusky; the middle Claw 

 in thefe Birds is longer than in the common Uen ; this which I drew 

 being two Inches and a quarter long. The beft way to raife them is, 

 by litting their Eggs under the common Hen. The Right Honourable the 

 Lord Burli?7gto7i was pieafed to fend me this Bird from his Seat at 

 Chijimck. 



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