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The Peruvian Curaflow is another fpecies, or 
perhaps the female of the former. The plumage 
is a reddifh brown; the head of a blueifh caft: 
they vary much in their plumage.~ The knob at 
the bafe of the bill in the young is very fmall, but 
grows much larger as they become older; in 
fome it is bare, in others covered with fhort fea- 
thers. ‘They came originally from Mexico and 
Peru, but are now kept in a tame ftate in many 
parts of America, and in the Weft India iflands, 
as Turkeys are with us; and like all birds that 
have been long made domefti¢, vary much in 
their plumage. - 
_ They are fometimes kept in menageries in Eng- 
land, and feed on bread and grain; but the cold 
and dampnefs of our climate is very hurtful to 
them, and the moifture of the grafs in our fields 
often brings on complaints in their feet, and oc- 
cafions their toes to decay, and fall off; in this 
ftate they will live fome time. Mr. Latham faw 
a bird of this fpecies, which lived until after 
the whole of one-foot was gone, and only part of 
one toe left upon the other. | 
In their wild ftate they frequent mountainous 
places, feed on fruits, rooft on high trees, and 
do not offer to efcape when they fee feveral of 
their flock killed. 
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