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vered with a naked purplifh blue (kin, in which the eyes are
placed: beneath the throat, for an inch and a half, the fkin is
loofe, of a fine red colour, and covered only with a few hairs •
the top of the head is furnilhed with long feathers, which the bird
can ereft as a creft at will', the general colour of the plumage
brownilh black, glofied with copper in fome lights; but the
wing coverts have a greenifti and violet glofs: the quills moft
incline to purple: the fore part of the neck, breaft, and belly,
are marked with white fpots | thighs^under tail coverts, and the
tail itfelf, brownilh blick : the legs are red: the claws black.
Some of thefe birds have little or no creft, and are fuppofed to
befemaks.
This inhabits Braß, where it is often made tame. It frequently
makes a noife not unlike the word Jacu. The flelh is much
N efteemed.
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L ’Yacou, S u f. o if ii. p. 387.—Mem. fu r Cayenne, vol. 1. p. 398. pi. 5. ^JP^^LXI
COMEWHAT bigger than a Fowl• The bill black. the Description
^ head feathers long and pointed, forming a creft, which can
be erefted at pleafure: irides pale rufous: fpace round the
eyes naked, of a blueifti colour, and not unlike that of a Turkey z
it has alfo a naked membrane, or kind of wattle, of a dull
black; the blue lkin comes forward on the bill, but is not
liable to change colour like that of*the Turkey : the plumage has
not much variation ; it is chiefly brown, with fome white markings
on the neck, breaft, wing coverts, and belly : the tail is
compofed of twelve feathers, pretty long, and even at the end ;
begs red.
Vet. II. 4 S This