212 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 
form of turkeys, might properly be assigned a full specific rank. 
These noble birds are too well known to make it necessary to go 
into any details regarding them, beyond the accounts given in 
the various articles in the body of this book. From the Mexican 
and not from the North American bird came our stock of 
domestic Turkeys, and nearly all the latter exhibit in their light 
rumps and upper tail-coverts the proof of their descent. The 
so-called Bronze Turkey of the farm-yard has, however, a large 
percentage of the blood of the wild Northern bird in his veins. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
A. Tail tipped with deep rusty, upper tail- 
coverts tipped with chestnut. 
: : : WILD TURKEY. 
a. Bars on primaries reaching the shafts. M jets 
: : , FLORIDA WILD 
6. Bars on primaries not reaching the l 
TURKEY. 
shafts. M. s. osceola. 
ELLIOT’S RIO 
B. Tail and upper coverts tipped with och- cee 
raceous buff. M. s. elliot. 
MEXICAN WILD 
C. Tail and upper coverts tipped with white. TURKEY. 
M. gallopavo. 
