° 1915 ] Wright, Early Records of the Wild Turkey. 73 



mean l " They gobble (viz wild turkies) The gobbling reply which 

 the turkey cock makes to the call of the hen. The place which 

 bears the name must have been a favorite place of the turkies." 

 Of " Chiknicomika. Chikenecomike or Tschikenumik" it says 

 "Place of turkies, where turkies are plenty." In another place, 

 it appears " Chickahominy Chikamawhomy (Eng. idiom) Turkey 

 lick. Tschikenemahoni (German idiom) Turkey lick, or the lick at 

 which the turkies are so plenty. I know several places bearing 

 this name for the same reasons. These turkies go there to drink," 

 Of this form in Pennsylvania, William Bartram (1. c. pp. 286, 290) 

 writes, " These breed and continue the year round in Pennsylvania." 

 In the nineteenth century, we have more notes for Pennsylvania 

 than for N. Y. or N. E. and doubtless the species held its own longer 

 in this state. Thaddeus Mason Harris in 1803, when he reaches 

 Laurel Hill, notes that 2 " For more than fifty miles, to the west and 

 north, the mountains were burning. This is done by hunters, who 

 set fire to the dry leaves and decayed fallen timber in the vallies, 

 in order to thin the undergrowth, that they may traverse the woods 

 with more ease in the pursuit of game. But they defeat their own 

 object: for the fires. . . . destroy the turkies. . . . , at this season en 

 their nests, or just leading out their broods." In 1804 (Dec. 20), 

 Robert Sutcliffe 3 " came this day to Jersey town where I slept. 

 In passing through the woods this afternoon I saw a flock of wild 

 turkeys running along the ground." In an "Account of Bucking- 

 ham and Solebury, Penn. 1806," Watson remarks 4 "Deer, turkeys 

 and other small game made a plenty supply of excellent provision 

 in their season." In 1810, F. Cuming (1. c. p. 37) finds that wild 

 turkeys "abounds on these mountains" about Strasburg. In the 

 same year, Christian Schultz publishes his "Travels." He says, 5 

 "I had never seen a wild turkey before I descended this river 

 (Alleghany), where I had an opportunity of shooting a great many. 



»ibid., Vol. I, pp. 127, 140, 141. 



2 Harris, T. M. The Journal of a Tour into the Territory Northwest of the 

 Alleghany Mountains. Made in the Spring of the Year 1803. Boston, 1805, pp. 

 22, 23. 



3 Sutcliffe, R. Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 

 1805, and 1806. Phila., 1812, p. 170. 



4 Mem. Hist. Soc. Penn. Vol. I, 1826, p. 303. 

 » Schultz, Christian. Vol. I, p. 122. 



