2 12 GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



form of turkeys, might properly be assigned a full specific rank. 

 These noble birds are too well known to make it necessary to go 

 into any details regarding them, beyond the accounts given in 

 the various articles in the body of this book. From the Mexican 

 and not from the North American bird came our stock of 

 domestic Turkeys, and nearly all the latter exhibit in their light 

 rumps and tipper tail-coverts the proof of their descent. The 

 so-called Bronze Turkey of the farm-yard has, however, a large 

 percentage of the blood of the wild Northern bird in his veins. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Tail tipped with deep rusty, upper tail- 

 coverts tipped with chestnut. 



) WILD TURKEY 



a. Bars on primaries reaching the shafts. j- j^j svlvestris 



b. Bars on primaries not reaching the ( 

 shafts, ) M. s. osceola. 



FLORIDA WILD 

 TURKEY. 



B. Tail and upper coverts tipped with och- 

 raceous buff. 



C. Tail and upper coverts tipped with white. 



ELLIOT S RIO 

 GRANDE 

 TURKEY. 



M. s. ellioti. 



MEXICAN WILD 

 TURKEY. 



M. gallopavo. 



