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Meleagris gallopavo Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I, 1758, 156. 

 [B458, C379, R47°> C 5S3-] 



Geog. Dist. — Southwestern United States, from western 

 Texas to Arizona ; south over the tableland of Mexico. 

 This is the main basis of the Linnaean name. 



310<7. Meleagris gallopavo fera (Vieill.). 



Wild Turkey. 



Meleagris fera Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. IX, 18 17, 447. 

 Meleagris gallopavo fera Coues, Auk, XVI, Jan. 1899, 77. 



[B 457. C 3790, R 47°^ C 554-] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, from southwestern Penn- 

 sylvania to the Gulf Coast, and west to the Plains, along wooded 

 river valleys ; formerly north to southern Maine, southern Ontario, 

 and up the Missouri River to North Dakota. 



310/;. Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scott. (Not changed.) 



310Y. Meleagris gallopavo ellioti Sennett. This becomes 

 Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett. 



Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. 

 and Geog. Surv. Terr. V, No. 3, Nov. 1879, 428. 



The name intermedia, proposed tentatively, has thirteen years 

 priority over ellioti, both names being based on the same form. 

 (Cf Coues, Auk, XIV, 1897, 275.) 



320rt. Columbigallina passerina pallescens (Baird). The 



concordance {cf Coues, Auk, XIV, April 1897, 215) should 

 be corrected to read as follows : 



[ B 453^/^A C 3740, R 465, part, C 548.] 



326. Catharista atrata (Bartr.). As Bartram was not 

 strictly binomial in his nomenclature, it is inconsistent with 

 the A. O. U. Code to recognize any of his names. {Cf 

 Coues, Auk, XVI, Jan. 1899, 8 4-) Hence No. 326 becomes 



