BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 451 



74 (Rio de la Cruz, Tamaulipas). -Smith, Auk, xxxiii, 1916, 188 (Kerr County 

 Tex.) ; Condor, xx, 1918, 212 in text (near Matador, Motley County Tex ) - 

 Simmons, Birds Austin Region, 1925, 84 (Austin region, Tex.; habits; nest 

 and eggs; descrip. ; etc.).-GRiscoM and Crosby, Auk, xlii, 1925. 533 (Browns- 

 ville, Tex.). -Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 342 (life hist • etc ) - 

 Peters. Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 140.-Ghigi, Gallini di Faraone e 

 Tacch.ni. 1936, 327 (genl). -Sutton, Ann. Carnegie Mus.. xxvii, 1938 178 

 (Tarrant County Tex.; probably breeds) .-Hellmayr and Conover, Cat Birds 

 Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 293. 



M[eleagris] g[allopavo] intermedia Bailey, Handb. Birds Western United States 

 1902, 136 (descr.; distr.). -Moore, Auk. Iv, 1938. 113 in text, 114 (spec • crit )' 

 — Mosby and Hani>ley, Wild Turkey in Virginia, 1943, 4 (distr ) 



Meleagrts galhpavo intermedia Lacey, Auk, xxviii, 191l', 206 (Kerrville Tex • 

 fonnerly common). ' '' 



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



M[eleagris] intermedia Reichenow. Die Vogel. i, 1913, 305. 



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



Meleagris gallopavo ellioti Sennett, Auk.'ix. 1892," 167, pi 3 (Lomita Ranch 

 Hidalgo County, s. Tex.; coll. G. B. Sennett). -American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Auk, x, 1893. 60; Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, No. 310c.-Ridgway Man 

 North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, 591. 



[Meleagris gallopavo.] Subsp. a Meleagris ellioti Ogilvie-Grant Cat Birds Brit 

 Mus.. xxii, 1893. 388 (Tamaulipas; Hidalgo, Tex.). 



MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO MERRIAMI Nelson 



Merriam's Turkey 

 Adult f/w7^.— Similar to that of M. g. sihestris but with tips of the 

 rump feathers, upper tail coverts, and rectrices very much lighter and 

 whiter (even paler than in M. g. intermedia)— pale pinkish buff, the 

 feathers of the upper back, breast and upper abdomen very slightly less 

 bronzy, the lower back blackish with bluish gloss as in M. g. intermedia; 

 the upper tail coverts bright auburn proximal to the broad pale tips which 

 m turn are basally narrowly pale ochraceous-tawny, the black subterminal 

 band of the rectrices averaging narrower than in silvestris and in the 

 lateral ones, with well-developed, metallic, greenish-purplish, transverse 

 bars included, the secondaries more mottled with pale tawny to cinnamon, 

 especially on the inner webs and with more white on both webs ; feathers 

 of flanks and the under tail coverts broadly tipped with pinkish buff to 

 light pinkish cinnamon, averaging paler on the flanks and darker on the 

 under tail coverts, these broad tips, in turn, basally hazel, these basal 

 hazel areas broader on the under tail coverts than on the flanks; tarsal 

 spur somewhat shorter and more stubby than in silvestris. 



Ad^lt fefmle.—ShnWav to that of M. g. intermedia but larger (as large 

 as M. g. silvestris) and with the upper tail coverts and rectrices with still 

 paler tips— pale pinkish buff to tilleul buff; the innermost secondaries 

 more heavily mottled with dusky. 



//uma^Mr^.— Similar to the adult of corresponding sex but generally 

 duller below and retaining the two outermost juvenal primaries. 



