TO4 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 
brown and white ; naked skin on head and neck pale crimson. 
Total length, about 43 inches ; wing, 21; tail, 15°5 ; tarsus, 7. 
Adult Female.—-Smaller and less brightly coloured than the 
male, from which it also differs in having a narrow band of 
feathers along the middle of the crown to the base of the 
small erectile process on the forehead; no bunch of hair-like 
feathers on the breast; and the whole of the under-parts fringed 
with white. Total length, about 40 inches; wing, 17°9; tail, 
14°3; tarsus, 5°3. 
Range.—Table-lands of North Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, 
and Western Texas. 
Habits.—It is from the Mexican form that our domestic 
breed of Turkeys has been derived. ‘There appears to be no 
doubt that at the time of the Conquest these birds were 
regularly reared in captivity by the Mexicans, and were 
brought to Europe early in the sixteenth century either direct 
from Mexico or from the West Indian Islands, where they had 
been previously introduced. 
The Mexican Turkey, according to Captain Bendire, is more 
of a mountain-loving species than the Eastern bird, and is still 
reasonably abundant in the wilder portions of Western Texas, 
the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and is very 
common in portions of Mexico. He believes that this species 
attains a greater size than JZ. americana, as he shot a speci- 
men weighing twenty-eight pounds after being drawn, and 
was informed that much heavier birds are occasionally 
killed. This he could readily believe, having seen tracks 
of this species along the banks of the San Pedro River, 
in Arizona, measuring between five and six inches in length, © 
and unquestionably made by a much larger bird than the one 
he had killed. Mr. Herbert Brown, of Tucson, Arizona, 
remarks :—“ Without knowing it positively, I am of the 
belief that they raise two broods of young every season, as 
I have seen almost all sizes in the mating-season (October), 
