
10 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Another fpecies has an upright tapering creft, 
and no {purs, and a red circle round each eye. ; 
It inhabits Japan. 

Genus 60. MELEBAG RES: 
2 PORK Be YY, 
The head is covered with a {pongy fubftance. | 
The throat is furnifhed with a membranaceous, and 
flaccid, carunculated fkin, (that is, with a loofe fkin co- 
vered with warts.) 
Firft Species, The common TurRKEY. 
ee HE head and fore part of the neck is co- 
vered with a loofe warty fkin. 
~The breaft of the male has a tuft of black hair 
when he is three years old; and his legs are 
each furnifhed with a fpur, or rather a o 
knob, 
The number of the feathers in the tail are 
eighteen. 
The female has not the fpur, fometimes the 
tuft of black hair appears on the breaft, but it is 
neither fo long, or fo full, as on the breaft of 
the male, 
The 

