The Hifiory of ANIMALS. 485 
This is a native of many parts of America. Few of the authors who have written 
of birds have been acquainted with it. 
Crax punBulatus corolla atra , roftrofulvo . 
The fpotted Crax , with a black corolla, and a brown beah 
This is a more beautiful fpecies than either of the preceding: the head is large, 
and deprefled at the front, but elevated toward the hinder part, and there ornamented 
with a large and beautiful cred of a deep glofly black, long and revolute : the eyes are 
large, and their iris is of a drong orange colour : the beak is fhort, robud, and of a 
brownifh-yeliow3 the point of it is very (harp, and it is more hooked than in any of 
the other fpecies: the neck, back, bread, and, indeed, every part of the bird is 
black, fpotted in an irregular manner with little fpecks of white 5 thefe are more nu¬ 
merous on the bread than in any other part, and are no where fo large as on the up¬ 
per part of the wings: the legs are robud, moderately long, and of a dulky yellowifh 
colour; the toes are long and robud, and the claws are long and black. 
This is a native of Domingo, and fome other of the American idands; it is not 
found on the continent. Few of the writers on birds feems acquainted with it. 
MELEAGRIS. 
T H E anterior part of the head of the Meleagris is covered with a flefhy, pendu¬ 
lous fubdance : the lides of the head alfo and the throat are covered with a 
papillous defhy matter5 and there is alfo a longitudinal flefhy cred, of a reddifh, 
bluidi, or purplidi colour, and a fofc fubdance. Of this genus there is but one 
known fpecies. 
Meleagris. 3£l)t 
This is a large but an unweildy bird : the head is large, and is drangely covered and 
ornamented with a pendulous, foft, flefliy fubdance, of a fcarlet colour, but varying 
with blue and purple, and many other changeable colours, and in fome degree alfo 
altering it’s form according to the pleafure, or as influenced by the paflions, of the crea¬ 
ture : the eyes are fmall, but bright and piercing3 the apertures of the ears lefs patu¬ 
lous than in many others. 
The wings are moderately long, though not at all formed for fupporting fo large a 
bulk in long flights5 they have each twenty-eight long feathers: the tail is long and 
large, and the creature has a power of ere&ing and fpreading it in a beautifhl manner: 
the legs are moderately long, and very robud. 
It is a native of North America, where it is always, without variation, black 
throughout 3 with us it is frequently grey, and of other colours: we keep it for the 
fake of it’s flelh. Mod of the writers on birds have defcribed it. They call it GaE 
lo-pavo, Meleagris, and Numidica avis. 
G A L L U S. 
T H E front of the head in the Gallus is ornamented with a longitudinal flefhy 
cred or comb: the wattles on the throat are two 3 they alfo are longitudinal 
and flefhy. 
Gallus cauda comprejja afcendente. 
The Gallus , with a comprejfed afcendent taiL 
U3)e Cocfe. 
The common domedic cock, in his natural date, is a very robud and beautiful 
bird : the body is large and flefliy 3 the head fmall, and the legs remarkably robud : 
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