Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on American Gallinse. 235 



The fine series of this Grouse in the British Museum 

 appears to be much more complete than that at the disposal 

 of the writers quoted above. I have also examined a 

 number of specimens from the Tring Museum^ which have 

 been kindly lent me by Mr. Rothschild, and they tend to 

 confirm my opinion. 



1. Meleagris gallopavo (op. cit. p. 387). 



Dr. Coues [c/. Auk, xiv. pp. 272-274 (1897)] agrees with 

 the writer that the name '' Meleagris gallopavo Linn." can 

 only be used for the Mexican bird, and that M. mexicana 

 Gould is merely a synonym. The Linuean name is founded 

 chiefly on the figure in Albin's Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 33_, pi. 35 

 (1740), and " the Turkey Cock " there depicted agrees per- 

 fectly with Gould^s type. 



Mr. Nelson [Auk, xvii. p. 122 (1900)] says that ''there is 

 every reason to suppose " that " M. gallopavo Linn." should 

 be referred to the birds from Vera Cruz, the only part of 

 Mexico occupied by the Spaniards during the first few years 

 of the conquest. I cannot see any possible ground for such 

 a supposition ; for, though Mexico was discovered in 1517, 

 the City of Mexico captured in 1521, and the Turkey estab- 

 lished in Europe by 1530, the fact remains that the " Turkey- 

 Cock " figured by Albin in 1740, on which the Linnean name 

 was founded, can only have been of West or North Mexican 

 origin. 



1 A. Meleagris gallopavo intermedia. 

 Meleagris gallopavo var. intermedia Sennett, Bull. U.S. 

 Geol. Surv. v. p. 428 (1879) [Rio Grande]. 



Meleagris gallopavo ellioti Sennett, Auk, ix. p. 167, pi. iii. 



(1892) [Rio Grande]. 



Meleagris ellioti Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 388 



(1893) [Tamaulipas, E. Mexico, and Hidalgo, S.W. Texas]. 

 Meleagris gallopavo merriami Nelson, Auk, xvii. p. 120 



(1900) [Mountains of Arizona and Western New Mexico 

 and south to the Mexican border] . 



In the ' Catalogue of Birds ' I accidentally used the name 

 M. ellioti for this form. Sennett, having given the Rio Grande 



