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turkey’s ; it hath a broad fpace of bare Ikin round the 
eyes, which, when the bird was living, was of a 
pale red-lead colour; the eyes like thofe of a turkey ; 
the head, and half the neck, is covered with very 
fhort feathers, of a whitifh clay colour, with tranf- 
verfe dufky bars, though the throat and fore- part of 
the neck are wholly of a light clay colour. Thefe fhort 
feathers occupy the head and that part of the neck, 
which is naturally void of feathers in turkeys. On 
the lower part of the neck, the bread, and belly, the 
feathers are much longer, and of a black colour, with 
a purple and changeable glofs. The thighs and legs, 
on their fore-part, a little below the knees, are co- 
vered with feathers tranfverfely barred with clay co- 
lour and black. The back, covert feathers of the 
wings and tail, are of a mixed colour, in very fine 
tranfverfe lines of brown and black, though fome of 
the coverts of the wings and tail have larger tranfverfe 
bars of the abovefaid colours; the greater quills are 
dufky, or black, powdered with fmall clay-coloured 
fpots; the inner coverts of the wings have white tips, 
which hide their bottoms, that are dufky. I counted 
fixteen feathers in the tail, the outer ones fhorter by 
two inches than the middlemod ; their colour is com- 
pofed of brown and black, mixed tranfverfely, like 
thofe on the back, though they are more dufky to- 
ward their tips ; the very tips being of a bright brown : 
the outer borders of the fide feathers of the tail are of 
a bay colour ; the covert feathers beneath the tail are 
of an orange colour, eroded with black ; about the 
vent, the feathers are white, with dufky fpots. 1 he 
whole upper fide nearly refembles that of a hen-phea- 
fant, but darker coloured. The feathers oi the body 
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