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colour like the Turkey’s, and a blackifh wattle. 
The plumage is moftly brown marked with white, 
ad there are but twelve feathers in the tail. 
It is found at Cayenne, but in greater num- 
bers in the inner parts of Amazonia; in Cayenne 
it is tame, breeds there, and is kept with 
Poultry. 
The Yacou makes its neft on the ground, but, 
except in breeding time, is moftly perched on 
trees; if taken notice of, and pleafed, it raifes 
its creft and fpreads its tail, like the common 
Turkey. 
‘The Yacou has two cries, the one like the 
| cry of the young Turkey, and the other lower. 
Turkey ; and its appearance is fo different, that 
The Marail Turkey is another fpecies,’ it is 
about the fize of a common -Fowl; round the 
eyes is a naked pale red fkin, the throat is bare, 
and has a loofe naked fkin half an inch long; 
the feathers of its head are longifh, and may be 
raifed fo as to form a creft: the plumage is of a — 
greenifh black, the tail’has twelve long feathers, 
which generally hang down. 3 
When this bird is enraged, it raifes not ohly 
its creft, but all the feathers of its head: the fkin 
of the throat and round the eyes change colour ; 
the tail is lifted up and {pread, like the common 
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