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breaft there is a tuft of black hairs, eight inches in 
length : In other refpe&s it refembles the domeftic 
Turkey, in having a bare red carunculated head 
and neck, a fleihy dilatable appendage hanging 
over the bill, and a fhort blunt fpur or knob at the 
back part of the leg. 
Tame Turkies, like every other animal in a 
ftate of domeftication, are of various colours; of 
thefe the prevailing one is dark grey, inclining to 
black, with a little white towards the ends of the 
feathers : fome are perfe&ly white ; others black 
and white ; there is alfo a beautiful variety of a fine 
deep copper colour, with the greater quills pure 
white ; the tail of a dirty white : In all of them the 
tuft of black hair on the breaft is prevalent. Tur- 
kies are bred in great numbers in Norfolk, Suffolk, 
and other counties, from whence they are driven to 
the London markets in flocks of feveral hundreds 
each. The drivers manage them with great faci- 
lity, by means of a bit of red rag tied to a long 
pole, which, from the antipathy thefe birds bear to 
that colour, a£ts as a fcourge, and effectually an- 
fwers the purpofe. The motions of the Turkey, 
when agitated with defire or inflamed with rage, 
are very fimilar to thofe of the Peacock ; it ere&s 
its train, and fpreads it like a fan, whilft its wings 
droop and trail on the ground, uttering at the fame 
time a dull hollow found ; it ftruts round and round 
with folemn pace, affumes all the dignity of the 
moft majeftic of birds, and thus expreffes its attach- 
