
America, they go in flocks of four or five hun- 
dred; they frequent woods, feed on acorns, and 
back, 
12 THE NATURAL. HISTORY 
fome are {potted with white; fome are grey; 
fome clay-coloured; and fome perfecily white. 
The Turkey may be faid to have two tails, 
that which he fometimes raifes, and which js 
compofed of eighteen feathers; and another be- 
low, the feathers of which are {maller. 
The Turkey was originally an American bird, 
it was feen in France in the reign of Francis the 
Firft, and in England in the reign of Henry the 
Eighth, which is more than 240 years ago; it 
was probably brought from Mexico in America, 
In the Antilles, (which are iflands in the Atlantic 
ocean,) they lay three or four times a year, and 
they are larger than with us. In fome parts of 


retutn at night to the fwamps to rooft. They 
perch on the dead branches of trees, and are fo 
tame, that even when one of their flock is killed, 
the reft will remain where they were, and fuffer | 
themfelves to be fhot ; fometimes they will-let a 
man come near aaa kill them with a 
piftol. 
In March they grow fo fat, that they can fly 
but three or four hundred yards at a\time, and — 
are frequently hunted down by a man on horfe- . 
They i 
