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The O^u A N or Guan, fo called in the Weft Indies. 
T I’''HI S Bird is a little bigger than a common Hen , near the Bignefs of the larger 
**■ Kind of Poultry 5 for Shape of Body, it pretty nearly refembles a Turkey, to 
which I take it to be near of Kin; the Bill flraight, longer than a Hens Bill, bending 
down a little at the Point, of a black'Colour; the Noftrils placed pretty near the 
Head; the Sides of the Head are of a Blue-purple-colour’d Skin, bare of Feathers i 
in the middle of thefe bare Spaces are placed the Eyes, whofe Irides are of a dark, dirty 
Orange-colour; under the Chin, and a little way down the Neck, there hangs a loofe 
Skin, of a fine red Colour, thinly fet with black Hairs ; the Top of the Head is 
cover’d with black Feathers, which it can eredt into a Creft; fome have little or 
no Appearance of a Creft, I fuppofe they are Hens; the whole Body, downward 
from the Head, is cover’d with .black Feathers, or very dark, rufty brown; the fore¬ 
part of the Neck, Breaft, and Belly, have white Spots and Dafhes tending down¬ 
ward, intermixed with the dark Colour; the Coverts of the Wings have fomething of 
a green and purple Glofs,’ the Quills more inclining to Purple; the Back and Rump 
refledt a Copper-colour’d Glofs; but all thefe Gloffes change to different Colours in 
different Pofitions of Light; yet in a bad Light, the Bird feems to be only of a rufty 
black, having no Luftre at all; the Thighs and lower Belly are of a rufty black, hav¬ 
ing no Glofs ; the Tail is pretty long, fhaped like a Turkey s Tail, of a dull blacky 
the Legs and Feet are of a bright Red; it hath four Toes ftanding after the ufual 
manner: I could fee no Spurs it had ; the three forward Toes are join’d together a 
little way by a Membrane; the Claws are black. 
I faw one of thefe Birds at Captain Chandlers at Stepney, who brought it with him 
from fome one of the Sugar Iflands in the W e Jl Indies, 1 have forgot diredtly which; 
but I Cbppofe it may be found in moft of them. The Brajilian Jacupema of Mar¬ 
grave, 1 believe, is the fame with this Bird, tho* his Defcription differs fomething 
from mine. 
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