WILD TURKEY. 
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183 
inches below 
h 6 ' J 'U entirely, and depend two or three i 
' The neck is of a moderate length and thickness, 
faring 0 n its inferior 'portion a pendent fascicle of 
Pk r *g'd hairs, about nine inches long. The body is 
t| , llcls ) somewhat elongated, and covered with long 
located feathers; these are divided into very light 
t^ginous down at base, beyond which they are dusky; 
' this dusky portion succeeds a broad, effulgent, 
gallic band, changing now to copper colour or bronze 
then to violet or purple, according to the incidence 
tight ; and at tip is a terminal, narrow, velvet black 
which does not exist in the feathers of the neck 
breast ; the lower portion of the back, and the 
|V,Per part 0 f t ],c rump, are much darker, with less 
.pliant golden violaceous reflections ; the feathers of 
le inferior part of the rump have several concealed, 
Prow, ferruginous, transverse lines, then a black band 
6f °re the broad metallic space, which is effulgent 
°Ppery ; beyond the terminal narrow black band is an 
5 Polished bright bay fringe. The upper tail-coverts 
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a origin Day colour, vvuu nmutiuuo 
lining greenish ; all these coverts are destitute ot 
metallic band, and the greater number have not 
-|®. black subterminal one ; the vent and thighs are 
u ai , tt brownish cinereous, intermixed with paler ; the 
Per tail-coverts are blackish, glossed with coppery 
°'rards the tip, and at tip are bright bay. 
.i Phe wings are concave and rounded, hardly surpassing 
f 6 origin of the tail; they have twenty-eight quill 
Others, of which the first is shortest, and the fourth 
/“l fifth longest, the second and ninth being nearly 
Tml ; the smaller and middling wing-coverts are 
oloured like the feathers of the body ; the greater 
° v erts are copper violaceous, having a black j 1 ! 111 ** 
ea r the whitish tip; their concealed web is blackish, 
S Mnkled with dull ferruginous : in old birds, the 
Interior web is much worn by friction amongst the 
pims, in consequence of which those feathers exhibit 
* V( 'ry singular, un webbed, curved appearance. The 
Pm-ious wing the primary coverts, and the primaries. 
