GALLINACEOUS. 
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Bill, very convex, Ihort, and ftrong. 
Nostrils, bodied in a flelhy fubftance. 
Tongue, cartilaginous, fharp, entire. 
Head, adorned with a Comb , or elevated ferrated flefh. 
Spurs on the legs. 
Tail, confiding of fourteen feathers ; that of the male, fickle- 
fhaped. 
To be found in every farm-yard. 
Its native country India and its ifles. 
Domefticated every where. 
Phafianus of Linn^us, who clafles it with the Pheafant, and has 
VI fpecies. Gallus of Brijfon , I. 165. who enumerates V, but 
they are only varieties. 
Bill, convex, Ihort and ftrong. 
Nostrils, open, pointed at one end, lodged in a membrane. 
Tongue, Hoped on both fides towards the end, and pointed. 
Head and Neck, covered with a naked tuberofe flefh, with along 
flefhy appendage hanging from the bafe of the upper mandible* 
Tail, broad, confifls of eighteen feathers, extenfible. 
Unknown to none. 
Native of North America only : Domefticated in moft countries. 
Meleagris of Linnaeus, and Gallo-pavo of Brijfon, I. 158. Lin- 
naeus has III, Brijfon II fpecies. 
XXX. COCK. 
Ex. 
XXXI. TURKEY. 
Ex. 
Bill, 
