Turkeyhen

It would be too great an undertaking to describe all the extraordinary birds that inhabit this country; but I cannot refrain from noticing that to which they give the name of gallinazo, from the resemblance it has to the turkeyhen. This bird is of the size of a peahen, but its head and neck are something larger.

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The Madison, 1843, edition, from which the following paragraph is taken, differs slightly from the later texts: […] I told the old woman more ’n twenty times that mother’s old turkeyhen was settin on fourteen eggs.

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The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings, I see in them and myself the same old law.

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Here and there among the great gathering could be seen odd couples of brave-appearing young gobblers and neat little turkeyhens who talked in quieter tones and spoke of the end which faced them on the morrow.

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