THE AUK: 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



VOL. XIX. 



April, 1902. No. 2. 



IN SEARCH OF A NEW TURKEY IN ARIZONA. 



BY E. A. GOLDMAN. 



In December, 1899, I was directed to make a trip into the 

 Mogollon Mountains of northern Arizona to secure a series of 

 Wild Turkeys for the Biological Survey of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture. The first of January, 1900, found 

 me oufitting at Winslow, on the Santa Fe Pacific Railway. After 

 some talk with local hunters I decided to go to the Clear Creek 

 country on the north slope of the mountains, chiefly because, as 

 far as I could learn, no one had hunted in that section durmg the 

 season, while numerous parties had been out m every other 

 direction, and the flocks were said to be scattered and the birds 

 very wild. The services of a local hunter and a camp man were 

 secured and a late start made with a light but strong wagon, and 

 horses which were trained for packing and work under the saddle 

 as well as for driving. Provisions for two weeks were taken, and 

 as we expected to see some snow our outfit included a shelter tent. 

 The weather had been bright and clear, and the winter so far 

 an open one with little 'or no snow, but the first day of the new 

 year was raw and cloudy and I was cheered by the prospect of a 

 storm, knowing that after a fresh snowfall it would be compara- 

 tively easy to track and overtake the turkeys. 



From the railway the road led off to the southwest, across the 

 gray, wind-swept desert, ascending slowly but steadily to Sunset 

 Pass -a gap among some bare, sterile hills which rise a few 



