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very darkly barred bird from Indian Territory and another from 

 Vermilion, S. D. 



In the plate I have arranged male birds in the following order: 

 top row, old New England birds, typical ones on left, darkest indi- 

 vidual on right. Second row; from right to left, Va., N. C, S. C. 

 and Ga., with two typical Florida birds, Colinus v.floridauus at the 

 left end. The lower row shows a series of western birds, with 

 Illinois birds on the right and a darker Indian Territory bird on the 

 left. The Georgia, Florida and Indian Territory specimens can 

 always be told from those of New England, and the typical old 

 New England bird can with fair certainty be separated from the 

 southwestern bird, but not from that of Virginia. 



To sum up : if I were asked to characterize the probable appear- 

 ance of the New England quail of fifty years ago, I should say — 

 Size large, especially the wing; mantle with a tendency to a plainer 

 appearance and not so heavily speckled. Lower parts less heavily 

 barred, and barring more V-shaped; whole top of head and post- 

 ocular streak more reddish and less black : entire bird more tawny 

 and generally somewhat lighter in tone, especially on the lower 

 back, rump and sides. 



EARLY RECORDS OF THE WILD TURKEY. IV. 



BY ALBERT HAZEN WRIGHT. 



(Continued from p. 81.) 



The Carolinas and Georgia. 



In the seventeenth century, we have seven or eight notes of 

 interest. In 1663, a -'Report of Commissioners sent from Bar- 

 bodes to Explore the River Cape Fear" has it that l "The woods 

 (are) stored everywhere with great numbers of deer and turkeys — 

 we never going on shore but we saw of each sort.' 1 ' Several excerpts 

 from "A Relation of A Discovery lately made on the Coast of 



1 Hawks, Francis L. History of North Carolina, 1663-1729, Vol. II, p. 31. 



