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NE8T8 AND EGGS OF 



* * WILD TURKEY OF CENTRAL AMERICA, Meleagris ocelUita. (From Brehm). 



310a. MEXICAN TURKEY. Mclcayris f/tillnimi;, m<.rirann (Gould.) Geog. 

 Dist. Table-land of Mexico, north to the southern border of the United States; 

 Western Texas to Arizona. 



This Turkey is found in Western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and southward; 

 in suitable localities it is abundant. In various mountain ranges throughout New 

 Mexico it is very common. On the approach of winter they leave their summer 

 haunts and travel down the foot hills and the mesas, where they remain until the 

 snow disappears, when, like the deer, they return. Mr. Scott states that in the pine 

 woods of the Catalina mountains of Arizona this Turkey was very common late in 

 November, 1885, though snow covered the ground. The bird, however, from what he 

 could learn, has already decreased in number in most localities, and to have be- 

 come exterminated in others where it was formerly abundant.* Mr. George B. 

 Sennett found this Turkey common on the Lower Rio Grande of Texas, nesting in 

 the dense woods. The first set of eggs, twelve in number, were taken April 24, 

 contained young chicks peeping in the shell. A set of fifteen obtained April 26 were 



* Auk, Vol. Ill, p. 389. 



