48. MKLEAGltlS. 387 



Tarsus more than halt" as lonj^ again as tlio mifldlc toe and claw, 

 and armod in tho males with a largo stout spur. 



Jiaiuie. U.S. of N. America; Central America; 31cxico, Guate- 

 mala, Yucatan, and British Honduras. 



Key to the Species. 



A. None of the tail-feathers with subterminal me- 



tallic ocelli, though some of the outer fe ithers 

 usually show traces of a metallic band. (Males 

 with a pair of strong spui's on the tarsi, females 

 without.) 



a. Upper tail-coverts margined with white gnllopnpo, p. .'587. 



b. Upper tail-coverts mirgined with rufous buff . ellioti, p. 3cS8. 



c. Ujjper tail-coverts margined with dark chestnut 



or chestnut-maroon. 

 a'. White bars on the primaries as wide or 



nearly as wide as the dark iuter.spaces .... americana, p. 389. 

 b' . White bars on the primaries much narrower 



than the dark interspaces osceola, p. 390. 



B. All the tail-feathers with a subterminal greenish- 



bliie oeellus shot witli purple. (Males with a 

 pair of very strong spurs on the tarsi, females 

 with small blunt knobs.) ocellata, p. 391. 



1. Meleagris gallopavo. 



Crested Turkey, Albiii, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 30, pi. 33 (1738) [domestic 

 var.]. 



The Turkey Cock, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 33, pi. 35 (1740). 



Meleagris gallop ivo, ij«rt. S.N. i. p. 208 (1706); Gmel. S. N.'x. 

 pt. ii. p. 732 (1788) ; Lath. Ltd. Orn. ii. p. 018 (1790) ; Steph. in 

 Shine's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 150, pi. 8 (1819); Gray, List Gallinee 

 Brit. Mus. p. 42 (1867) ; id. Hand-/. B. ii. p. 202 (1870) ; Melliss, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 104 [St. Helena] ; Beudire, Am. Nat. vii. p. 320 

 (1873) ; Coues, B. N.-Tf'est,^^. 392, footnote (1874) [New Mexico, 

 Arizona] ; Hensh. Auk, iii. p. 80 (1880) [New Mexico]. 



The Turkey, Pennant, Phil. Trans. Ixxi. p. G7, pi. iii. (1781) [part., 

 Mexico]. 



Mek'iigris mexicana, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 61 ; id. Am. J. Set. 

 xxii. p. 139 (]8o6) ; id. Bdiab. N. Phil. J n. s. iv. p. :'.71 (1850) ; 

 id. Ann. May. N. H. {2} xix. p. 107 (1857); Bryant, P. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H. vi. p. 158 (1857) ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 018 (18(X)) 

 [part.] : Svlnt. P. Z.S. 1803, p. 125; Coues, P. Ac. Philad. ]8G(), 

 p. 93 [S. liockvMts.]; Elliot, B. N. Amer. ii. pi. 38 (1809); 

 Coop. Calif. Orn. i. p. 523 (1870); AUen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. ii. 

 p. 343 (1871); Llliot, Man. Phas. i. pi. 32 (1872); v. Pelz. Ibis, 

 1873, p. 35. 



MeUngris gallopavo, var. mexicanus, Baird, Brew., ^ Eidgio. N. 

 Atncr. B. iii. p. 410 (1874) [part.]. 



iSfeleagris gallipavo, Coue.'^, Key N. A. B. p. 57G (1884). 



Meleagris gallopavo mexicana, Scott, Auk, iii. p. 389 (1886) [Ari- 

 zona] ; A. O. U. Check-li-4, p. 177 (188()) ; liidyn: Man. N.Amer. 

 B. p. 207 (1887) [part.]; Bendire, N. Amer. B. p. 110, pi. iii. 

 tig. 15 (1892) [part.]. 



Adult male. With a long bunch of coarse blatk hair-Iiko feathers 



2c2 



