UPLAND BIRDS 



The tracks of this, the largest of game birds, 

 differ in nowise from those of the domestic 

 kind. In the woods in wild turkey country 

 they usually indicate their presence by scratch- 

 ing up the ground cover in search of food, just 

 as domestic fowls do under similar circumstances, 

 and by their droppings-. The latter are the more 

 important as a means of identification. 



Wild turkeys, when habitually or temporarily 

 frequenting a given locality, have their favorite 

 trees upon which they roost, and under these 

 trees the droppings will be very plentiful. Some 

 hunters wait at such roosting places during the 

 evening or morning and get their game; some- 

 times the bird may have treed five hundred yards 

 or more away, but the expert, who is not given 

 to guesswork, makes it his purpose to ascertain 

 all the turkey trees in a district, notes the easiest 



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