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turkey ; but it is chiefly remarkable for the odd formation 
of the skin of the head and neck ; this skin, which is of 
an orange colour, arises from the base of the bill, whence 
it stretches on each side to the head ; the eyes are sur- 
rounded by a red skin, and the iris has the colour and 
lustre of pearl. Upon the naked part of the neck is a 
collar formed by soft longish feathers. Into this collar 
the bird sometimes withdraws its whole neck, and some- 
times a part of its head, so that it looks as if it had 
hidden its neck in its body. 
THE BUZZARD. (Falco Buteo.) 
The noble Buzzard ever pleased me best ; 
Of small renown 'tis true ; for, not to lie, 
We call him but a Hawk by courtesy. 
HIND AND PANTHER. 
THIS is a rapacious bird, of the long-winged hawk kind, 
and the most common of all in England. It is of a 
sluggish indolent nature, often remaining perched on the 
same bough for the greater part of the day ; as if, indiffer- 
ent either to the allurements of food or of pleasure, it 
were doomed, like some of the human species, to pass its 
allotted span of life in passive contemplation. It feeds on 
