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BRITISH BIRDS, 
THE TURKEY. 
( [Meleagris Gallopavoy Lin .’ — Le Dindotiy Buff.) 
It feems to be generally allowed that this bird 
was originally brought from America, and in its 
wild hate is confiderably larger than our domeftic 
Turkies : Its general colour is black, variegated 
with bronze and bright gloffy green, in fome parts 
changing to purple ; the quills are green gold, 
black towards the ends, and tipped with white ; 
the tail confilts of eighteen feathers, of a brown co- 
lour, mottled and tipped with black ; the tail co- 
verts are waved with black and white \ on the 
