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Defcription. 
Tall. 
White 
variety. 
Mr . pennant’s Account 
T. with the characters deferibed in the definition 
of the genus. The plumage, dark gloflfed with 
variable copper colour, and green. Coverts 
of the wings and the quill feathers barred with 
black and white. Tail confifls of two orders. 
The upper or fliorter very elegant, the ground 
colour a bright bay ; the middle feather marked 
with numerous bars of fhining black and green. 
The greateft 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 like thofe 
of the middle ; but the end is plain and crofled 
with a fingle bar, like the exterior. 
The longer or lower order are of a rufly 
white colour, mottled with black; and crofled 
with numerous narrow-waved lines of the fame 
colour, and near the end with a broad band. 
Wild Turkies preferve a famenefs of colouring ; 
the tame, as ufual with domeftic animals, vary. 
It is needlefs to point out the differences in fo well 
known a bird : the black approaches neareft to the 
original flock. This variety I have feen nearly in 
a ftate of nature in Richmond and other parks. 
A moft beautiful kind has of late been introduced 
into England of a fnowy whitenefs, finely con- 
trafting with its red head. Thefe, I think, came 
out of Holland, probably bred from an accidental 
white pair ; and from them preferved pure from 
any dark or variegated birds. 
Size. 
