WILD TURKEY. 



THE MALE WILD TURKEY. 



an inch and half long, but when he is excited by love or rage, it 

 becomes elongated, so as to cover the bill entirely, and depend two 

 or three inches below it. The neck is of a moderate length and 

 thickness, bearing on its inferior portion a pendent fascicle of black, 

 rigid hairs, about nine inches long. The body is thick, somewhat 

 elongated, and covered with long, truncated feathers. These are 

 divided into very light fuliginous down at base, beyond which they 



