. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . 27/i£- Lara/dff/i H/-/t ( 29) The Carafow Cock mi Hen. Numb. XXXI, [XXXII. THIS Bird is almoft as big as a Turkey ; its Bill thick and hooked at theEnd, partly cinereous and partly yellow ; on the Bafe of the upperMandible is a round hard Excrefcence of the Bignefs of a Nutmeg, of ayellow Colour; the Eyes black, the Irides crimfon with a Border of white ;the Head and Neck covered with Feathers of a deep black like Velvet;on its Head was a Crefl; of curled black Feathers with whit
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . 27/i£- Lara/dff/i H/-/t ( 29) The Carafow Cock mi Hen. Numb. XXXI, [XXXII. THIS Bird is almoft as big as a Turkey ; its Bill thick and hooked at theEnd, partly cinereous and partly yellow ; on the Bafe of the upperMandible is a round hard Excrefcence of the Bignefs of a Nutmeg, of ayellow Colour; the Eyes black, the Irides crimfon with a Border of white ;the Head and Neck covered with Feathers of a deep black like Velvet;on its Head was a Crefl; of curled black Feathers with white Tips turn-ing up fpirally as far as the Beginning of the Neck, which they canere^t or let fall at Pleafure. All the reft of the Bird is Black, exceptingthe lower Part of the Belly about the Vent, which is white, with a Markof the fame Colour acrofs the Thigh; the Legs and Feet are of a paleferrugineous Colour. The Head and Neck of the Hen were black; the Tips of fome ofthe Neck-Feathers white with a broad Stripe of white acrofs the middleof the Creft; the Bill was cinereous; the Excrefcence on the Bafe yell
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