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late Mr. Floresi, a gentleman wliose energy as a collector was only 

 eąualled by the honourable career of a moderately long life, during 

 which he was conuected \Yith the Real del Monte Minės i n Mesico. 

 Mr. Floresi travelled himself, and kept coUectors, who penetrated 

 into the remotest parts of that country ; and many were the fine 

 species he by this means comniunicated to the world of science. I 

 may mention the splendid Picus imi^erialis, Calurus neoxenus, and 

 many Humming Birds, as some of the species which but for his 

 researches -svould have been unknown to us. 



In size this new Turkey exceeds that of the largest specimens of 

 the North American species ; but it has shorter legs, a considerably 

 larger and more broadly expandedtail, conspicuously zoned with brown 

 and black, and terminated with \vhite ; the tail coverts are very pro- 

 fusely developed, largely tipped with white, and bounded posteriorly 

 with a narrow hne of black, their basai portions being lich metallic 

 bronze. The šame arrangement of colouring also prevails on the 

 feathers of the lower part of the flanks ; and on the under tail coverts, 

 vvhere it is particularly fine ; the centre of the back is black, with 

 green, purplish and red reflexions ; the back of the neck, upper part 

 of the back, and shoulders, are in some hghts bronzy, in others the 

 colour of fire ; the greater wing coverts are uniform bronzy brown, 

 forming a conspicuous band across the vving ; all the primaries are 

 crossed by mottled bars of blackish brown and white, freckled with 

 brown ; all the under surface is fiery copper, intensely brilliant in 

 certain hghts, and becoming darker towards the flanks. 



Totai length 4 feet 4 inches ; bill 2| inches, -vving 21| inches, tail 

 16 inches, and when spread about 24 inches across ; tarsi 6f . 



In the Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers 

 by Captain L. Sitgreaves, lately published in America, the following 

 passage occurs at p. 94, in reference to Wild Turkey s : — 



" They are also found in New Mexico, in the neighbourhood of 

 the copper-mines. I am told by our officers that those found there 

 are of enormous size. Mr. Leroux, ourguide, informed me that the 

 Turkeys of the Gila River were different from those found east of 

 the Rio Grande, and that they have much white about them." 

 These are doubtless identical with the bird under consideration. 

 Since the above remarks were in type, I have been informed by 

 J. H. Gurney, Esq., M. P., that he some years since received the 

 skin of a Wild Turkey from the neighbourhood of the Real de 

 Monte minės in Mexico, vvhich he considers to be the šame as the 

 bird above described ; this specimen is now in the Museum at 

 Norwich. 



