WILD: TURKEY: 
N the United States there are at present recognized 
four different kinds of Wild Turkeys, resembling each 
other, as would naturally be supposed, in many par- 
ticulars, but each having its own peculiarities and well- 
defined limits of dispersion. The present species is the 
well-known bird of the Eastern portion of the Union, 
north of Florida, and formerly was much more exten- 
sively distributed than it is at the present day. From 
various causes, but chiefly too much killing, it has entirely 
disappeared from many localities in which it was formerly 
abundant, and become greatly lessened in others, and its 
range is yearly being gradually more restricted, as 
though the fate that has befallen so many wild creatures 
would also, in an altogether too brief period, overtake 
this noble bird, and another name be added to the list of 
the members of our Fauna that have become extinct. 
In the Atlantic States, where it formerly was found from 
southern Maine to Florida, a few are now left in certain 
parts of Pennsylvania, which is its northern limit, becom- 
ing more abundant to the southward. Some are still 
met with in wooded districts of Ohio, in the southern 
parts of Michigan and Wisconsin, and the States lying 
on the west side of the Mississippi to Texas. It is com- 
mon in the Indian Territory, and not scarce in the Gulf 
States and parts of Texas. It used to be frequently met 
with in certain portions of Canada, but if any remain to- 
day they would probably be found in southwestern 
Ontario. 
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