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‘The Peruvian Curaflow is another Species, or 
Docriae 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 
a 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 eet vary much in 
their plumage; a . 
_ They are fometimes kept i in menageries:in Eng- 
and, 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- 
- ¢afions their toes to decay, and fall off; in this 
‘ ftate they will live fome time. Mr. Latham. faw 
a bird of this {pecies, which lived until after ae 
_ the whole of one foot was gone, and only part of 
a ‘one toe left upon the other. | | 
In their wild ftate they frequent mountainous 
paces feed on fruits, rooft on high trees, and 
do not offer to — when they fee feveral of 
_ their flock killed 
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