: shalt common ea neat the Bignefs of the larger 
Shape of Body, it pretty nearly refembles a Turkey, to 
in ; the Bill ftraight, longer than a Hen’s Bill, bending 
jlack* Colour; the Noftrils placed pretty near the 
yf a me. d Skin, bare of Feathers ; 
HIS Bird isa little Wy 
Kind of Poultry; 
which I take it to be 
down a little at the Poit 
Head ; the Sides of 
Skin, of a fine red Col our, thinly fet | Aairs ; the Top of the Head is 
eover’d with black “r 1 t cal crcl fome have little or 
no Appearance of - 4 Fn Rewhole Body, downward 
from the Head, is co al My ifty brown; the fore- 
part of the Neck, Breaft, a and Dafhes tending down- 
ward, intermixed with the d s have fomething of 
a green and purple Glofs, th ; Back and Rump 
reflect a Copper-colour’d Glo different Colours in 
different Pofitions of Light ; yet ) cems ‘be only of a rufly 
black, having no Luftre at all; the Th re of a ru fty black, hav- 
ing no Glofs; the Tail is pretty long, : il, of a dull black ; 
the Legs and Feet are of a bright Red fier the ufual 
“manner: I could fee no Spurs it had ; Vd together a 
little way by a Membrane; the ane are ~ 
I faw one of thefe Birds at Captain Chandler's at Stepney, wht 
from fome one of the Sugar Iflands in the V Indies, l have forgot. 
but I {wppofe it may be found in moft of t them. The Brahh lian “Fac 
_ grave, \ believe, is the fame with this Bird, “tho ee a diff 
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