Beh, | WILD TURKEY. 
the terminal narrow black band is an unpolished bright bay 
fringe. The upper tail-coverts are of a bright bay colour, with 
numerous narrow bars of bright shining greenish; all these 
coverts are destitute of the metallic band, and the greater num- 
ber have not the black subterminal one ; the vent and thighs 
are plain brownish cinereous, intermixed with paler; the under 
tail-coverts are blackish, glossed with coppery towards the tip, 
and at tip are bright bay. 
The wings are concave and rounded, hardly surpassing the 
origin of the tail; they have twenty-eight quill-feathers, of 
which the first is shortest, and the fourth and fifth longest, the 
second and ninth being nearly equal; the smaller and middling 
wing-coverts are coloured like the feathers of the body; the 
ereater coverts are copper violaceous, having a black band 
near the whitish tip; their concealed web is blackish, sprinkled 
with dull ferruginous: in old birds, the exterior web is much 
worn by friction amongst the bushes, in consequence of which 
those feathers exhibit a very singular, unwebbed, curved ap- 
pearance, faithfully represented in the plate. The spurious 
wing, the primary coverts, and the primaries, are plain blackish 
banded with white, which is interrupted by the shaft, and 
sprinkled with blackish; the secondaries have the white por- 
tion so large, that they may as well be described as white 
banded with blackish, and are, moreover, tinged with ferrugi- 
nous yellow; this colour gradually encroaches on the white, 
and then on the blackish, in proportion as the feathers ap- 
proach the body, so that the tertials are almost entirely of that 
colour, being only sprinkled with blackish, and having metallic 
reflections on the inner web ; the anterior under wing-coverts 
are brownish black, the posterior ones being grey; the tail 
measures more than a foot and a quarter, is rounded, and com- 
posed of eighteen wide feathers; it is capable of being ex- 
panded and elevated, together with the superior tail-coverts, 
so as to resemble a fan, when the bird parades, struts, or wheels. 
The tail is ferruginous, mottled with black, and crossed by 
numerous narrow undulated lines, of the same colour, which 
