TILE TURKEYS, 103 
of London is nearly white with a slight yellowish-buff tinge ; 
the shell is rather smooth, with some gloss, and not very deeply 
pitted. Measurements, 1°95 by 1°55 inch. 
THE TURKEYS. GENUS MELEAGRIS. 
Afeleagris, Linn, S. N. i. p, 268 (1766), 
\ Type. JZ, gallopavo (Linn ). 
Head and neck zaked and wattled, with only a few hair-like 
feathers; an erectile fleshy process on the forehead. 
Tail broad and rounded, composed of e/giteen feathers, the 
middle pair not much longer than the outer. 
First primary flight-feather about equal to the tenth, fifth 
slightly the longest. ‘Tarsus considerably longer than the 
middle toe and claw, andarmed 7 the ma/es with a large stout 
spur. 
I, THE MEXICAN TURKEY. MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO, 
Meleagris gallopavo, Linn. S. N. i. p. 268 (1766); Ogilvie- 
Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxii. p. 387 (1893). 
Meleagris mexicana, Gould, P. Z. S. 1856, p. 61; Elliot, B. N. 
Amer. ii. pl. 38 (1869); id. Monogr. Phasian. i. pl. 32 
(4872). 
Meleagris gallopavo mexicana, Bendire, N. Amer. B. p. 116, 
pl. iii. fig. 15 [egg] 1892 [part]. 
Adult Male—General colour of plumage black and dark 
copper-bronze, shot with fiery-green and purplish-bronze. A 
tassel-like bunch of long, coarse, black, hair-like feathers oz 
the middle of the breast; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 
broadly tipped with white, the latter zever ornamented with 
metallic ocelli near the extremity, though the outer feathers 
have a slight metallic band across the middle of the sub- 
terminal black band; primary quills equally barred with dark 
