ME LEA GRIDID.E : TURKE YS. 



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devil's or a baker's dozen (11-13), creamy or buff, pretty regularly and uniformly spotted or 

 speckled in tine pattern with chocolate and reddisli-browu, rarely neutral tints; size averaging 

 2.45 X 1-S5. M. gallopavo, wholly or in part, of authors; A. O. U. Lists, 1886-95, No. 310. 

 M. americana Bartr. Trav. 1791, p. 290; M. g. americana CouES, Key, all editions. 

 M. g. occidentalis Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, i, 1876, p. 55. 31. palawa Barton, Med. 

 and Phys. Journ. ii, 1805, p. 163. M. fera Vieill. Nouv. Diet, ix, 1817, p. 447 and Gal. 

 ii, 1825, p. 10 ; Gallopuro sylvestris Le Conte, Pr. Phila. Acad. 18.57, p. 179, thus reverting 

 to Brisson, Orn. i, 1760, p. 162, and Catesby, 1730; 31. sylvestris Elliot, Gall. Game 

 Birds, 1897, p. 176. I make no point of insistence ujjon the availability of either of the Bar- 

 tramian names, americana and occidentdlis, thougli Allen has used the latter; but some 



Fig. 491. — WiM Turk 



f North America," by D. G. Elliot ) 



name must Ix- applied to tills bird. Failing both the Bartramian ones for any reason, the 

 next in order of date \^ jmlawa Barton: failing which for any reason, the next is/<va Vieill. 

 H17, adopted by the A. 0. U. at my instance, see Auk, Jan. 1899, p. 77 and p. 107; No. 3IOrt. 

 of theSu])pl. List, exchanging numbers with the stock form. 



M. g. osct'o'la. (Name of tlie famous Seminole Indian chief, b. in Georgia, 1^04, d. prisoner 

 at Fort .Mniihrie, S. C. .Tan. :]0, 1838. Fig. 492.) Fi,nKii>.\ Wii.i. Tiukey. Like the 

 last: tips of ui)])er tail-cov(>rts somewhat i)aler, as in intermedia, but dark bars on the prima- 

 ries in excess of widtii over tlie light ones. Southern Florida. 31. occidentalis Hartu. Trav. 

 I7!ll. ]). 83 (Florida). .1/. g. osceola Scott, Auk, I8!t0. p. .'{7t;. A. (). V. NO. :i\{) l>. 



Oits. — Before proceeding to the families 'letraoniiltr and l'erdicid(C, it may be well to re- 

 mark that the vernacular names " piiea.sant," " partridge," and ** (]uail,'' as applied to oiir pnmo 

 birds in ditferent sections of the cotmtry, are the cause of endlc-js confii.sion and misunderstand- 

 iiiL,', which it seems hop<)c<>i t.. :iit<iii|it ti> do ,i\v:iy uitli in t.iitiiilir ipi-r.li.tisiun. (1) Tlio 



