348 Wright, Early Records of the Wild Turkey. [july 



15. Scharff, R. F. Distribution and Origin of Life in America, New 



York, 1912, pp. 385, 386. 



16. Scott, R. F. The Voyage of the "Discovery." I, London, 1905, 



pp. 94, 95. 



17. Sharpe, R. B. Report on the Birds obtained by the National 



Antarctic Expedition at the Island of South Trinidad. Ibis, 1904, 



pp. 214-217. 

 IS. The South Atlantic Pilot, Pt. 1, 4th ed. (1893), p. 43. 

 19. Wilson, E. A. The Birds of the Island of South Trinidad. Ibis, 



1904, pp. 208-213. 



EARLY RECORDS OF THE WILD TURKEY. V. 



BY ALBERT HAZEN WRIGHT. 



(Concluded from p. 224-) 



Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois. 



In this area the wild turkey held its own against two centuries of 

 civilization's advances. The first note comes in 1658-1660 when 

 Peter Esprit Radisson (1. c. pp. 152, 212) finds in the country of the 

 " Pontonatemicks " (Lake Superior region) "there are so many 

 Tourkeys that the boys throw stones at them for their recreation." 

 Of this same region, he again says "many have Turkeys." The 

 Jesuit Relations speak of the turkey in this region in several 

 accounts. In 1661 and 1662 they assert that in the Mississippi 

 valley * " Turkeys and fowls fly in flocks as Starlings do in France." 

 In 1669-70, Marquette, when in the Illinois country, finds 2 "There 

 is fine hunting of . . . .Turkeys,. ..." Along the Mississippi River, 

 the Relations of 1672-74 say 3 "Turkeys strut about, on all sides," 

 and of Illinois River they hold that "Turkeys are found there in 

 greater numbers than elsewhere." On Marquette's Voyage, 



i The Jesuit Relations Vol. XLVII, p. 143. 



2 ibid., Vol. LIV, p. 189. 



3 ibid., Vol. LVIII, pp. 99, 107. 



