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13 THE NATURAL HISTORY. 
 fome are {potted with white; fome are grey; 
- fome clay-coloured ; and fome perfectly white. 
The Turkey may be faid to have two tails, 
that which he fometimes raifes, and which is 
compofed of eighteen feathers; and another be- 
~ low, the feathers of which are fmaller. 
The Turkey was originally an American bird, 
it was feen in France in the reign of Francis the 
Firft, and in England i in the reign of Henry the 
Kighth, 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 | 
America, they go in flocks of four or five hun- _ 
dred 5 they frequent woods, feed on acorns, and— 
yeturn 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 ‘enough to kill them with a 
piftol. 4 
In March they grow fo fat, that: ri can ty | 
_ but three or four hundred yards at a time, and 
are frequently hunted down by a man on horfe- | 
back, Yoke 
They 4 

