. Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry;. DOMESTIC FOWL. metallic band, which changes, according to the point whence the light falls upon it, to bronze, copper, violet, or purple: and the tip is formed by a nar- row, black, velvety band. This last marking is absent from the neck and breast. The color of the tail is brown, mottled with black, and crossed with numerous lines of the latter color. Near the tip is a broad black band, then a short mottled portion, and then a broad band of dingy yellow. The wings are white, banded closely with black, and shaded with brownish yellow, which deepens in t
. Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry;. DOMESTIC FOWL. metallic band, which changes, according to the point whence the light falls upon it, to bronze, copper, violet, or purple: and the tip is formed by a nar- row, black, velvety band. This last marking is absent from the neck and breast. The color of the tail is brown, mottled with black, and crossed with numerous lines of the latter color. Near the tip is a broad black band, then a short mottled portion, and then a broad band of dingy yellow. The wings are white, banded closely with black, and shaded with brownish yellow, which deepens in tint towards the back. The head is very small in propor- tion to the size of the body; the legs and feet are strongly made, and fur- nished with blunt spurs about an inch long, and of a dusky reddish color; the bill is reddish, and horn-colored at the tip. The hen is less in size than the cock ; her legs are destitute of spurs: her neck and head are less naked, being furnished with short, dirty, gray feathers ; the feathers on the back of the neck have brownish tips, producing, on that part, a brown, longitudinal band. She also frequently, but not invariably, wants the tuft of feathers on the breast. Her prevailing color is a dusky grey, each feather having a metallic band, less brilliant than that of the cock; then a blackish band and a greyish fringe. Her whole color is, as usual among birds, duller than that of the cock : the wing feathers display less white, and have no bands : the tail is similarly colored to that of the cock. When young, the sexes are so much alike, that it is not easy to discern the difference between them; and the cock acquires his beauty only by degrees, his plumage not arriving at perfection until the fourth or fifth year. ^^,,^.,^ The wild turkey was form- i ^ i^M^0^ erly found in Canada, and in ^v ' i r^C^lf several districts of the United States, but has been gradually driven backwards as popula- tion increased. It is now chiefly to be found in the
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