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VL An Account of the Turkey* By Thomas Pennant, Efq. 
F. R. S . ; communicated by Jofeph Banks, Efq. P. R . S. 
Read December 21, 178x9 
TURKEY. Bill convex, fhort and ftrong. 
Head and neck covered with a naked tuberole 
flefti, with a long flelhy appendage hanging from 
the bafe of the upper mandible. 
On the bread: a long tuft of coarfe black 
hairs. 
Wild Turkey, joss£lyn*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. 
Gallo-pavo, aldrov. Av. 11. 18. 
Gallo-pavo, the Turkey/ A. 3. Gallo-pavo 
fylveftris Novae Angliae, a New England wild 
Turkey, raii Synopfis Avium 51. 
Meleagris Gallo-pavo. M. capite caruncula 
front ali gularique, m^ris pedtore barbato, lin. 
Syft. 268. 
Le Dindon de buf^oN III. brisson. I. 158. 
tab. xvi. PI. Enl. 97. 
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