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various parts of the United States, England, etc. The introduced stock is of 

 various origins and mixed blood, at least thi-ee races being involved — colchicus, 

 torquatus, and mongolicus. 



Family MELEAGRIDIDAE. Turkeys. 



Genus MELEAGRIS Linnaeus. 



Meleagris Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 156. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vieillot. Eastern Turkey. [310a.] 



Meleagris silvestris VrEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., IX, 

 1817, 447. Based on the Dindon d'Amerique Bartram, Travels 

 (French ed.), I, 467. (Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — -Western Oklahoma, eastern Texas, the Gulf Coast, and northern 

 Florida to southeastern Missouri, eastern Kentucky, and central Pennsylvania; 

 formerly to Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, southwestern Ontario, and 

 southern Maine; now somewhat mixed with domestic and western stock in the 

 eastern portion of its range. 



Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scott. Florida Turkey. [3106.] 



Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scott, Auk, VII, No. 4, Oct., 1890, 376. 

 (Tarpon Springs, Florida.) 



Range. — -Peninsular Florida, north at least to Gainesville. 



Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett. Rio Grande Turkey. [310c.] 



Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., V, No. 3, Nov. 30, 1879, 428. (Lomita, Texas.) 



Range. — Middle northern Texas, south to northeastern Coahuila, Nuevo 

 Leon, and Tamaulipas. 



Meleagris gallopavo merriami Nelson. Merriam's Turkey. [310.] 



Meleagris gallopavo merriami Nelson, Auk, XVII, No. 2, April, 1900, 120. 

 (47 miles southwest of Winslow, Arizona.) 



Range. — Transition and Upper Austral zones in the mountains of southern 

 Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, western Texas, northern Sonora, and 

 Chihuahua. 



[An additional race of M. gallopavo occurs in central Mexico.] 



