. A general synopsis of birds . horn, tend-ing backwards: on the fore part of the neck, and throat, is a*loofe flap, of an exceeding fine blue colour, marked with orangefpots; the lower part of it befet with a few hairs; down themiddle it is loofer than on the fides, being wrinkled : the breaft»and upper part of the back, of a full red : the neck and breaffcincline to orange: the other parts of the plumage and tailrufous brown, marked all over with white fpots, encompaffed with,black: the legs are whitifh, and furnifhed with a fpur behindeach. A head of this was fent to Dr. Mead from Bengal, w
. A general synopsis of birds . horn, tend-ing backwards: on the fore part of the neck, and throat, is a*loofe flap, of an exceeding fine blue colour, marked with orangefpots; the lower part of it befet with a few hairs; down themiddle it is loofer than on the fides, being wrinkled : the breaft»and upper part of the back, of a full red : the neck and breaffcincline to orange: the other parts of the plumage and tailrufous brown, marked all over with white fpots, encompaffed with,black: the legs are whitifh, and furnifhed with a fpur behindeach. A head of this was fent to Dr. Mead from Bengal, with a,drawing of the bird;; it was, called Napaul Pheafant. 2, Meleagris criftata, Lin. Syft. i. p. 269. 2. GUAN T. Le-Dindon da Brefil, Brif. orn, i. p. 2. Jaciapema, Raii Syn. p. 56. 2.—Will. era. p. 165. pi. 28:Guan, or Quan, Ediv. pi. 13. Lev. Muf. Description. C I Z E of a Fowl: length two feet fix inches. Bill two inches-long, and black : irides dirty orange : fides of the head co-vered. ■■■■ .■ <sJ/ie &tyac0t£/. TURKEY. 681 vcred with a naked purplilh blue (kin, in which the eyes areplaced: beneath the throat, for an inch and a half, the Ikin isloole, of a fine red colour, and covered only with a few hairs :the top of the head is furnifhed with long feathers, which the birdcan erect as a creft at will: the general colour of the plumagebrowniih black, glofied with copper in fome lights j but thewing coverts have a greenifh and violet glofs : the quills moftincline to purple: the fore part of the neck, bread, and belly,are marked with white fpots : thighs, under tail coverts, and thetail itfelf, brownifh black : the legs are red: the claws black. Some of thefe birds have little or no creft, and are fuppofed tobe females. This inhabits Brafil, where it is often made tarrte. It frequently Placb. makes a noife not unlike the word Jacu. The flelh is muchefteemed. A. LYacou, Buf. oif. ii. p. 387.—Mem. fur Cayenne, vol. i. p. 398. pi. 5. YACOTJ
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