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of a yellowifih dolour. The top of the 

 head is crefted with a tuft of eredt fea- 

 thers, which are near an inch and an 

 half in length, of a fhining black colour, 

 fomewhat curling near the points, where 

 they are variegated with white marks, 

 or bars but thefe marks are wanting 

 in the female, whofe crefr is lefs promi- 

 nent : all the reft of the body is covered 

 with feathers of a fhining black, except ' 

 the belly, where the feathers are white : 

 the tail is long, and black : the legs and 

 toes differ only in fize from thofe of a 

 common Turkey Thefe Birds are 



* Since thefe Sheets went to the Prefs, the Au- 

 thor had an opportunity of feeing one of thefe 

 Pheafants, at an Exhibition of Birds in Piccadilly. 

 The Keeper told him, it had lately arrived from 

 Braj% where it was called Curajfo by the Natives. 

 Matters of Ships, failing to Foreign Countries, 

 conftantly pure hale the 111 oft curious Birds, and 

 tran fport them to Europe, by which means a con- 

 fiderable number of the Birds of Guiana have been 

 aiieady defcribed by Naturalifts, who never \ iflted 

 that Country. 



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