1 68 Sennett on a Netv Turkey. [April 



Types: adult $ , No. 569, my collection, Lomita Ranch, Hidalgo Co,, 

 Texas. April 13, 1S7S; adult $, No. 5533, my collection, Cameron Co., 

 Texas, March. 6, 1888. 



The range or habitat of this race, so far as known at the pres- 

 ent time, is restricted to the lowlands of eastern Mexico and 

 southern Texas. It will probably not be found south of Vera 

 Cruz, nor is it likely to be met with to the north beyond the Brazos 

 River of Texas, its range being tluis restricted within abotit ten 

 degrees of latitude. Wherever timber and food are in abundance 

 we find this new form common to the coast and lowlands, and we 

 could not expect to find it at an altitude exceeding 3000 feet above 

 sea-level ; while the variety viexica7ia is found only at the higher 

 altitudes from 3000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. 



So far as the wild state of the country embraced in the habitat 

 of M. g. ^///c// allows us to judge, there is no sign of its inter- 

 grading with any other form. All the specimens that have come 

 under my observation are remarkably alike, and when compared 

 with the other races show a decidedly marked contrast. 



The material on which I base my description is as follows : — ■ 

 Three fine adult males : first, the type taken at Lomita Ranch on 

 the Rio Grande, by myself, on April 13, 1S7S ; second, one taken 

 by my collector, John M. Priour, at Victoria in the State of 

 Tamaulipas, Mexico,' April 22, 18S8 ; and third, one taken by 

 F. M. Chapman on the Nueces River, not far from Corpus 

 Christi, Texas, in the latter part of April, 1891. Also two young 

 males taken by my collector, M. A. Frazar, at Lomita Ranch, 

 Hidalgo Co., Texas, Jaii. i6, iSSi ; two adult females, and 

 parts of a dozen other birds which, taken together, show the 

 characters of the race. 



In comparing with the other forms, I have access to the 

 figure of the type of Meleagris mexicann Gould, in Elliot's 

 ' Birds of North America', Vol. II, pi. 38, exhibiting the bird 

 half its natural size ; also to two fine adult females of AI. g. inexi- 

 cana in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 which were collected by Dr. Mearns in the high altitudes of Ari- 

 zona ; and of the eastern form several truly typical specimens 

 which are in the mounted collection of the American Museum. 



J/, g. cllioti. can be distinguished from the other forms by its 

 dark bufi" edgings on tail and upper and lower tail-coverts, in 



