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Description. 



last having fine long white marks upon the out- 

 ward web : the rest of the quill-feathers and the 

 tail are purple, as are also the covert and scapular 

 feathers of the wings, with a fine mixture of 

 green, interspersed through the whole. The 

 legs and feet are bluish, or lead colour. It is in 

 size pretty near to that of a fieldfare. 



Barbot, in his (e Description of his voyage to 

 South Guinea," describes this as a fine bird, of va- 

 rious colours, as white, black, brown, red, sky co- 

 lour, blue, &c. having a long tail, the feathers 

 whereof, he says, the blacks wear on their heads. 

 He describes some of them which are of a gold 

 colour, and others with charming blue tufts on 

 their heads, much in the form of a Virginian 

 nightingale's. 



THE CARASOW, 



SO called from a part of the West Indies, from 

 whence it is brought ; the Indians give it the 

 name of the mountain bird, and some travellers 

 call it a wild turkey; it is a bird which is easily 

 made tame and sociable, so as to accompany with 

 other fowls. This beautiful bird is black upon 

 the head and neck, resembling velvet, and has a 

 iiigh crest of curious ruffled black feathers like a 

 half circle, which rises spirally from the top of its 

 head, with a white circle running across them ; 

 these it can erect, or let fall at pleasure. The rest 



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