FLLIOT'S RIO GRANDE. TURKEY: 
tes handsome race of the Wild Turkey is restricted, 
so far as is known at present, to the lowlands of 
eastern Mexico and southern Texas, ranging not far- 
ther south than Vera Cruz nor north of the Brazos 
River, or about ten degrees of latitude. This is the dis- 
persion given to the bird by its describer, my friend Mr. 
George B. Sennett. It is a dweller of the woodlands 
and is not met with much, if any, above an altitude of 
2000 feet. While having the general appearance of the 
eastern Wild Turkey it differs from that and all the other 
races in many particulars; and the hen is unlike that of 
any other species or race of Turkeys known at the 
present day. No evidence of its intergrading with the 
common species has yet been obtained, but it is expected 
that it would interbreed with that bird wherever the 
limits of their dispersion came in contact. It has always 
been confounded with the Common Wild Turkey, and 
although its peculiar coloring and marking had been 
observed and commented on by many ornithologists it 
was not until lately that sufficient specimens were 
obtained, and its restricted habitat known, to prove its 
claim to be considered as a distinct race. Its habits 
are the same as those already described in the articles on 
the other races, and in beauty and brilliancy of its 
metallic coloring, as well as in size, it is not inferior to 
any of the Wild Turkeys inhabiting Mexico and the rest 
of the continent lying to the northward. The female 
varies greatly from the male, and in fact she is differ- 
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