98 HOW TO NAME THE BIRDS 



26§. WILD TURKEY. 



Iridescent copper-bronze. 



36-48. Bare skin of head and neck, blue ; excrescences, 

 purplish-red; upper tail-coverts, chestnut; tail, brown, 

 black-barred ; long tuft of blackish bristles hanging from 

 middle of breast ; legs, red ; general plumage, copper- 

 bronze, each feather black-tipped ; ? , smaller and duller. 



Pet .iianent, but rare, " in many wooded and thinly populated dis- 

 tricts '' of Pa., possibly in N. Y. (?) ; extirpated in N, E. and N. J. ; 

 nest, on ground ; eggs, much like those of domestic turkey, but a lit- 

 tle smaller. 



269. BEWICK'S WREN. 



Dark rufous-brown Ashy-white. 



^%. Rump, grayish ; flanks, brown. 



Only in Pa. and very rarely in N. J. ; a summer bird ; nest, in hole 

 of tree, etc. ; eggs, 7-9, white, sparsely speckled ; fine singer. 



270. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 



Ashy-gray Yellow, white. 1 



5. Whole top of head, and patches on side of head and 

 neck, black; long superciliary line, from bill to eye, yellow, 

 from eye to nape, white ; throat, rich yellow, black-bor- 

 dered ; other under-parts, white ; sides, strongly black- 

 streaked. 



Only in Pa. and S. N. J. ; a summer bird ; rare ; nesting, unknown. 



271. CAROLINA CHICKADEE. 



4>^. Coloring of common chickadee (238), but much 

 smaller. 



Only in S. Pa. (summer) and N. J. (permanent). 



