144 MELEAGRIDID/E : TURKEYS. 



Mr. Merriam's model paper gives us in this, as in so 

 many other cases, very valuable information. " Profes- 

 sor W. D. Whitney once mounted a fine specimen of 

 the Wild Turkey, killed on Mt. Tom, Mass., Nov. ist, 

 1847. It may now be seen in the beautiful case of birds 

 given by Prof. Whitney to the Peabody Museum of Yale 

 College, and is of particular value as being, in all pro- 

 bability, the last of its race seen in that State." 

 (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, p. 99.) 



Dr. Brewer retains it in his list of 1875, with the re- 

 mar? : "resident, probably extinct." (Pr. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist, xvii, 1875, p. 445.) 



The highest authority now writing upon the Birds of 

 New England — I mean Mr. Allen, of course — agrees 

 to the substance of the statements here given, in the 

 latest note he has left upon the subject, "Well known," 

 he says, " to have been a common species in southern 

 New England for a long time subsequent to the first 

 settlement of this part of the country (see Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, i, Sept., 1876, p. 55), but long since ceased to 

 exist here in a wild state." (Bull. Essex Inst., x, 1878, 



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