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Defcription. 
TaiL 
White 
variety! 
Mr. PENNANT*S Account 
T. with the characters defcribed in the definitions 
of the genus. The plumage, dark gloffed with 
variable copper colour, and green. Coverts 
of the wings and the quill feathers barred with 
black and white. Tail confids of two orders., 
The upper or fhorter very elegant, the ground 
colour a bright bay ; the middle feather marked 
with numerous bars of Aiming black and green. 
The greated part of the exterior feathers of the 
fame ground with the others marked with three 
broad bands of mallard green, placed remote from 
each other. The two next are coloured likethofe 
of the middle ; but the end is plain and eroded 
with a Angle bar, like the exterior. 
The longer or lower order are of a rudy 
white colour, mottled with black; and eroded 
with numerous narrow-waved lines of the fame 
colour, and near the end with a broad band.. 
Wild Turkiespreferve a famenefs of colouring ; 
the tame, as ufual with domedic animals, vary. 
It is needlefs to point out the differences in fo well; 
known a bird ; the black approaches neared to the 
original dock. This variety I have feen nearly in- 
a date of nature in Richmond and other parks., 
A mod beautiful kind has of late been introduced 
into England of a fnowy whitenefs, finely con- 
trading with its red head. Tliefe, I think, came 
out of Holland,, probably bred from an accidental; 
white pair ; and from them preferved pure from 
any dark or variegated birds.. 
