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back and rump with some coppery and greenish-golden metalHc reflections 

 as in silvestris and osceola, rather than bluish black as in gallopavo, and 

 larger, like merriami in size. 



Adult female. — Similar to that of M. g. gallopavo, but with general 

 dorsal coloration duller, more dusky purplish, less of the coppery and 

 greenish-metallic reflection. 



Suhadiult. — Similar to the adult of corresponding sex but with the 

 beard shorter, and, in the males, with tarsal spurs and frontal appendage 

 smaller. 



Immature. — Similar to the adult of corresponding sex, but has the 

 two outer juvenal primaries. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Similar to that of M. g. silvestris but darker, 

 the interscapulars and feathers of the upper back clove brown to chaetura 

 blackish with narrow whitish shafts, terminally edged with grayish Front's 

 brown and subterminally banded with sepia; inner secondaries and rec- 

 trices slightly more rufescent — between Verona brown and Sayal brown 

 (Sayal brown in silvestris) ; breast, abdomen, sides, and flanks fuscous 

 to chaetura drab, the feathers of the breast and upper abdomen subtermi- 

 nally banded with dusky cinnamon-brown and tipped with whitish. 



Natal down (judged from specimens in postnatal molt). — Similar to 

 that of M. g. silvestris but with the middorsal brown area somewhat paler 

 and duller — sepia. 



Adult male.— Wing 465-545 (504.1); tail 363-437 (396.1); culmen 

 from cere 34.5-41 (38.7) ; tarsus 168-182 (173.8) ; middle toe without 

 claw 84-93 (87.6) ; length of tarsal spur 13.5-17.5 (16.1) ; diameter of 

 tarsal spur 11-13 (12 mm.).-^ 



Adult female.— Wing 402-436 (419.6) ; tail 318-362 (334.9) ; culmen 

 from cere 33.5-35 (34.4); tarsus 132-139.5 (134.5); middle toe with- 

 out claw 68-73 (70.1 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident from Chihuahua, east of the cordillera (Colonia 

 Garcia; Pacheco River; Cajon Bonita Creek; San Luis Mountains) to 

 Durango (Ciudad Durango and El Salto) and to northern Jalisco 

 (Bolanos). 



Type locality. — Real del Monte, Hidalgo ? =z Bolanos, Jalisco. 



[Meleagris] gallopavo Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 156, part (North 

 America, part). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 732, part.— Latham, Index 

 Orn., i, 1790, 618, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 43, part. 



Me[leagris] gallopavo Stephens, in Shaw, Genl. Zool., xiv, pt. 1, 1826, 297, part. 



M[eleagris] gallopavo Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 576, part. 



Meleagris gallopavo Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., ix, 1817, 447, part. — Gray, 

 List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 42, part. — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 387, part (type spec, of mexicana; also Ciudad Durango, 



*' Nine specimens from Chihuahua and Durango. 

 " Seven specimens from Chihuahua and Durango. 



