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Melagris (emendation) Eyton, Osteol. Avium, 1867, 171. 



Gallo-pavo Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 26, 158. (Type, by tautoni-my, Gallopavo Brisson:= 



Mclcagris gaUapavo Linnaeus.) 

 Galloparus (err. typog. ?) Des Murs, in Chenu, Encycl. Hist. Nat., Ois., vi, 1854, 99. 

 GallopavUrS (emendation) Des Murs, in Chenu, Encycl. Hist. Nat., Ois., vi, 1854, 100, 



109. 

 Pseudotaon Billberg, Synop. Faunae Scand., i, pt. 2, 1828, tabs. A, B, C, and p. 4. 



(New name for Melcagris Linnaeus.) 

 Cynchramns "Moehring" Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ii, 1826, 122. 



(Not adopted but cited in synonymy of Melcagris Linnaeus.) 

 Cenchramus (emendation) Gray, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, 1841, 78. 



Largest of gallinaceous birds (length of adult males about 107-127 cm., 

 weight 16-40 pounds, the females decidedly smaller) ; adult males without 

 any vertical process or protuberance on crown, but with a conspicuous 

 pendant tuft of long, coarse bristles springing from center of chest; rec- 



FiGURE 27. — Mcleagris gallopavo. 



trices without a terminal metallic band or subterminal metallic ocelli. 

 (Other characters the same as these given for the family Meleagrididae.) 

 Plumage and coloration. — Head and upper neck nude, warted and cor- 

 rugated in adult males, smoother and more or less covered with short 



