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VI. An Account of the Turkey. By Thomas Pennant, EJq. 
F. R. $.; communicated by Jofeph Banks, Efq . P. R. S, 
Read December 21, 1781. 
TURKEY. Bill convex, fhort and flrong. 
Head and neck covered with a naked tuberofe 
flefh, with a long flefhy appendage hanging from 
the bafe of the upper mandible. 
On the bread; a long tuft of coarfe black 
hairs. 
Wild Turkey, josselyn’s Voy. 99. Rarities 8. clayton’s 
Virgin : Phil. Tranf. abridged, III. 590. law- 
son, 149. catesby Topp. XLIV. 
Le coq d’Inde, belon 248. 
Gallo-pavo, gesner Av. 481. Icon. 56. 1 
Gallo-pavo, aldrov. Av. ii. 18 , 
Gallo-pavo, the Turkey, A. 3. Gallo-pavo 
fylveftris Novae An gliae, a New England wild 
Turkey, raii Synoplis Avium 51. 
Meleagris Gallo-pavo. M. capite caruncula 
frontali gularique, maris pedtore barbato, lin. 
Syfh 268. 
Le Dindon de buffon III. brisson. I. 158. 
tab. xvl PI. Enh 97. 
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