BIRDS. GALLINiE. 68. Melagris 
Avith blackllh ; head 
Cuhcrfff. 
Tibetanus. Cinereous Ilrcaked 
fpurs 2. 
Inhabits Thibet; 25^ inches long. , 
Bill cinereous; irids yellow; wing-covert.'!, hack [,jV 5 
grey, w’ith fmall white fpots, belides which the 
Ihining-blue i'pots ; qaill-Jeathirs with 2 Ihining-hh'^^ 
/r^rgrey; fZaau blackifli. 
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Muticus. Head w'ith a fiibulate crefl ; fpurs o. 
Inhabits Japan; fize of P. crillatus. -elb''' 
Bill large ; legs cinereous ; area of the eyes red ; *^'^2 
■body blue, mixed with green ; head and neck greeiid ' 
blue fpots and a white Itrcak down the middle ; bdlpi 
coverts, iecondary quill-feathers and thighs 
black fpots, the belly with wliite flreaks ; primary' 
thers green, with tranfvcrle black lines .and yellowilh * 
i'. the, tip which is black; feathers of the rump 
white fliafts. 
fetnafe r belly black. 
. : 68. MELEAGRIS. Bill conic, 
head covered with fpongy carun<^ 
chin with a longitudinal meinhiA^; 
' ceous caruncle : tail broad, exP^^ tw, 
fpurred. 
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GaUtpatuh^Y ront and chin carunculatc ; breaft (of the male) ^ 
Inhabits America ; above 3I feet long ; is donieftica^^ jjvd 
^ . where, and varies much in its colours ; in a 
in woods and feeds on puts, acorns and various inf®y‘* 3'’^ 
on the higheft trees ; is very itafcible and iinp®’’*^”^,pari^' 
, thing red ; the cock ftruts with an inflated breafti 
* " ' tail, red face and relaxed frontal caruncle, and makes a 
^ iar inward noife, which when it is uttered lhakes o' j- j,(5> 
i ^ body ; eggs numerous, white, with reddifli or yell‘d" 
: ‘ tail-feathers 18. 
» ' ' Female without a Ipur. 
Saiyra. Head with aliorns; body red, with eyelike 
Inhabits India ; fometbing lefs than the laft. ,3 V*'!! 
.fitVf brown; nojlrils, front and area of the eyes, cove^ 
