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The head of the Turkey is rather {mall in pro= 
portion to the reft of the body, and bare; a few 
black hairs are fcattered between the red warty 

knobs, which appear on the bluifh fpongy fkin of 
the head and throat ; and a few {mall feathers aré 
feen on the upper part of the throat, they increafé 
in number lower down. 
On the bafe of the beak of the cock, is a piece | 
of fkin of the fame kind; in its natural ftate it 1$ 
fot more than an inch long, but when he is en- 
tazed, it hangs down one third the length of the 
neck ; and the fkin of the head and neck, becomes 
of a deep crimfon colour; he throws his head 
and neck backwards, briftles up his feathers, drops 
_ his wings, and ftruts about with his tail raifed an¢ 
fpread, and his wings ruftling upon the ground ;, 
he makes firft a kind of ftifled and hiffing noife, 
and afterwards a louder gobbling crys which is. 
often repeated. 
They may at any time be made to-do this, by 
fhewing them fomething red, which nls puts 
them in a great paflion. 
The colours of the Turkey, as in moft dos 
meftic fowls, are very different. Some are black, 
beautifully glofied with green, with purple, aid = 
with copper ; the tail waved with black and white : 
A & fome 
