26o LOST AND VANISHING BIRDS 



The eggs are from eight to twelve or thirteen in 

 number, ten being an average clutch. Occasionally, 

 however, two hens will lay in the same nest, as 

 many as twenty -six eggs having been found 

 together, one hen sitting upon them, the other 

 standing close by, probably to take her turn in the 

 task of incubation. These are pale orange buff, 

 thickly yet somewhat indistinctly marked with 

 reddish brown. 



The familiar Turkey of the farmyard is too well 

 known to require detailed description here. 



