TURKEY PHEASANT. 
This rare and very curious produdlion of 
nature, which was originally figured and de- 
scribed by Edwards, under the name of the 
Turkey Phe^isant, is the Meleagris Ilybrida of 
Linnaeus. 
*^ The size of this bird," Edwards informs 
lis, seemed to be between a Cock Pheasant 
and a Hen Turkey. Some of the principal 
measures," he says, " are as follows — From 
bill-point to tail-end, stretched twenty-^eiglit 
inches ; from the bill to the end of the toes, 
twenty-five inches and a half ; the tips of the 
wings when extended, thirty- two inches dis- 
tant ; the wing when closed, ten inches ; the 
leg, from the knee to the heel, three inches and 
a quarter; and the middle-toe, and claw, two 
inches and three-quarters. 
" The bill is black, with a little flesh colour: 
At the basis of the lower mandible, above tijc 
nostrils, are longish black feathers, that make 
a little 
