TURKEY PHEASANT. 
woods near Hanford in Dorseishire ; where 
it was seen In the month of October 1759, 
with two or three other birds of the same 
kind." It was of a middle size between the 
Pheasant and the Turkey, it's wings extend- 
ing thirty-two inches. A small tuft of pretty 
Ions: black feathers rose on the base of the 
upper mandible. The head was not bare, like 
that of the Turkev, but covered with little 
short feathers : the eyes were surrounded with 
a circle of red skin, but not so bioad as in the 
Pheasant, It is not said, whether this bird 
could spread the large feathers of the tail into 
tlie wlieel-shape : it only appears, from the 
figure, that it carried the tail in the same way 
us the Turkey generally does. It must also be 
observed, that their tail is composed of sixteen 
quills, as in the Grous ; while that of the 
I'urkey, and of the Pheasant, consists of 
eighteen. Also, each feather on the body shot 
double from the same root ; the one branch 
stiff and broad, the other small and covered 
with down : a characler wliich belongs nei- 
ther to the Pheasant nor the Turkey. If this 
bird was really a hvbrid, it ought to have had, 
like other hybrids — 1st, the charatSler common 
to 
