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SUB-FAMILY IV. 

 Meleagrix.e. The Turkeys. 



Gen. Charac. — Tail more or less short and pendent; the head and neck 

 denuded of plumes, or only covered with scattered hairs or carunculated ; 

 the base of the lower mandible sometimes wattled. 



Fig. 1-49. THE COM.MOX TVEEEY. 



{Meleagris Galli-pavo.) 



The wandering habits of these birds occasion them 

 to be found in the forests^ prairies^ and open tracts of 

 various parts of the northern continent of America. 

 The males live in small societies of ten to a hundred^ 



