BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 447 



one seen — Old Black Mountain). — Long, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., xliii, 1940, 



441 (Kansas; formerly abundant resident; now extinct). — Campbell, Bull. 



Toledo Mus. Sci., i, 1940, 65 (Lucas County, Ohio; formerly common; last 



record 1892). — Todd, Birds Western Pennsylvania, 1940, 178 (w. Pennsylvania; 



descr. ; habits; syn.; bibl.). — Trautman, Misc. Publ. Univ. Michigan Mus. 



Zool., No. 44, 1940, 227 (Buckeye Lake, Ohio; formerly common resident; 



now extirpated). — Goodpaster, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., xxii, 1941, 



13 (sw. Ohio; formerly common, now practically extirpated in settled districts; 



bones in Indian village sites). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, 



No. 1, 1942, 292 (distr. ; syn.).— Pearson, Brimley, and Brimley, Birds North 



Carolina, 1942, 110 (North Carolina; status; habits). — Cruickshank, Birds 



New York City, 1942, 154 (extirpated). — Mosby and Handley, Wild Turkey in 



Virginia, 1943, 4, ff. (distr. ; monogr. ; management). 

 Meleagres gallopavo silvestris Johnston, Birds West Virginia, 1923, 88 (West 



Virginia). 

 M[eleagr{s] gallopavo var. sylvestris Ridgway, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 



x, 1874, 382 (Illinois). 

 [Meleagris] gallopavo silvestris Baillie and Harrington, Contr. Roy. Ontario 



Mus. Zool., No. 8, pt. 1, 1936, 31, in text (Ontario; extirpated). — Petrides, 



Trans 7th North Amer. Wildlife Conf., 1942, 325, in text (age indicators in 



plumage). 

 M[eleagris] g[allopavo] silvestris Wright, Auk, xxxi, 1914, 343, in text (early 



records). — Moore, Auk, Iv, 1938, 113 in text, 114 (spec; crit.). — Leopold, 



Condor, xlv, 1943, 133, in text (molts of young). 

 Gallopavo sylvestris LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ix, 1857, 179-181 



(crit. ; ex Ray). 

 Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris Allen, Auk, xix, 1902, 420 in text. — Jones, Birds 



Ohio, Revised Cat., 1903, 85 (Ohio; prob. extinct). — Woodruff, Chicago Acad. 



Sci. Bull., vi, 1907, 86 (extirpated in Chicago area). 

 Meleagris fera Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ix, 1817, 447; Gal. Ois., ii, 



1825, 10, pi. 201.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 42.— Elliot, 



Auk, xvi, 1899, 232 (crit. on p. 231). 

 [Meleagris] fera Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 43. 

 Meleagris gallopavo fera Coues, Auk, xvi, 1899, 77. — American Ornithologists' 



Union, Auk, xvi, 1899, 108.— Beyer, Proc. Louisiana Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 



(1900), 98 (Louisiana). — Allen, Proc. Manchester Inst. Sci. and Arts, iv, 1902, 



94 (formerly resident in s. New Hampshire). — Kumlien and Hollister, Bull. 



Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc, iii, 1903, 58 (Wisconsin). 

 Meleagris gallopavofera Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 



254 (Kansas; now rare; formerly abundant). 

 Meleagris gallapavo fera Nash, Check List Birds Ontario, 1900, 27 (Ontario, 



formerly common). 

 Meleagris gallapavo, var. occidentalis Allen, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, i, 1876, 55 

 (extirpated in New England; ex Meleagris occidentalis Bartram, Travels in 



Florida, etc., 1791, 88 = nomen nudum). 



MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO OSCEOLA Scott 



Florida Turkey 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Meleagris gallopavo silvestris but 

 smaller and with the remiges with the white bars very much narrower 



