BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 457 



Durango). — ^American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xvi, 1899, 107, part. — 



Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, Hi, 1903, 284, part (Ciudad 



Durango and El Salto, Durango). 

 Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 



3, 1910, 145, part.— Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 140, part.— Hell- 



MAYR and CoNOVER, Cat. Birds Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 294, part. — Mosby and 



Handley, Wild Turkey in Virginia, 1943, 4, part (distr. ; part). 

 Meleagris mexicana Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1856, 61 (Real del Monte, 



Hidalgo ? (=Bolafios Jalisco!); coll. Brit. Mus.). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1863, 125, part (monogr.). — Elliot, New and Unfig. North Amer. 



Birds, pt. 10, 1868 (vol. ii), pi. 38 and text, part; Monogr. Phasianidae, i, 1872, 



pi. 28 and text, part. — Baird, in Cooper, Orn. California, Land Birds, 1870, 523, 



part. — CuBAS, Cuadro Geograph., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados 



Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 171 (common names in Mexico). 

 [Meleagris] mexicana- Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137, part. 

 Meleagris gallopavo, var. mexicana Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 



Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 410, part. 

 Meleagris gallopavo mexicana American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 



No. 310a part; ed. 2, 1895, No. 310a, part. — Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi 



Valley, 1888, 107, part. 

 M[eleagris] gallopavo mexicana Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 207, 



part (tableland of Mexico). 

 Meleagris gallopavo merriami (not of Nelson) Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 



1934, 140, part (Chihuahua). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i, 



No. 1, 1942, 293, part (Chihuahua). 



MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO ONUSTA Moore 



Moore's Turkey 



Adult nmlc—SymildiX to Meleagris gallopavo merriami but with the tips 

 of the rectrices and their upper coverts white instead of Hght buflf; sub- 

 terminal narrow cinnamon bar of merriami absent; the black bar im- 

 mediately anterior to it usually absent; inner and outer inargins of 

 secondaries and primaries less cinnamon, more dull earth brown and 

 white ; the iridescence of the body feathers, both above and below, darker, 

 less brilliantly green and copper ; the head less heavily clothed with black 

 hairlike feathers ; the feathers of the back of the neck lighter and more 

 grayish brown, less cinnamomeous ; the basal two-thirds of the tail more 

 barred, less vermiculated than in M. g. gallopavo, agreeing in this respect 

 with merriami from which it differs in that these bars are much more gray- 

 ish, less rufescent, especially on the under surface of the feathers in 

 onusta. 



Adult female. — Differs from that of M. g. merriami in the same re- 

 spects as the male of onusta does from the corresponding sex of merriami. 



Adult male. — Wing 505 ; tail 421 ; culmen from cere 38.4 ; tarsus 173.7 ; 

 middle toe without claw 89.5 mm. (1 specimen). 



