TURKEY PHEASANT. 
to the two primitive species ; 2dly, the quali- 
ties intermediate between the extremes : a cir- 
cumstance that, in this case, does not take 
place ; since this individual liad a chara6ler 
not to be found in either — the double fe^- 
tliers — and w^anted others, that occur in both — ■ 
tlie eighteen quills of the tail. Indeed, if it 
be insisted, that it was hybridous, we should 
more reasonably infer, that it was produced by 
the union of the Turkey with the Grous ; 
W'hich, as I have remarked, has no more than 
sixteen feathers in the tail, but has the double 
feathers.'' 
