TURKEY RAISING 



tipped with a copperish red, the tail coverts bright blue 

 with a black band and tipped with copperish bronze, the 

 tail feathers silver gray with indistinct black penciling and 

 with a blue eye edged with black located toward the ex- 

 tremity of each tail feather, while the tip of the feather is 

 copperish bronze. The feathers of the wing bow are 

 bright green tipped with black. The wing coverts are a 

 bright copperish red and form a beautiful band across the 

 wing while the wing primaries and secondaries are barred 

 with alternate dark and light bars similar to the same 

 sections in our domesticated Bronze turkey. 



Origin of the Name Turkey. In view of the fact that 

 the origin of the turkey traces clearly to North America, 

 some may wonder how this bird obtained its present name 

 which would suggest its origin as being Asiatic. The 

 most logical explanation seems to be that given by E. 

 Richardson. He suggests that the turkeys on being 

 brought to Spain from the New World were handled and 

 sold by the Hebrew merchants of that country. As the 

 turkey was quite generally confused with and called pea- 

 cock, it was natural therefore that these Hebrew traders 

 should apply to it their name for the peacock or "tukki." 

 More or less common use of this name followed which 

 easily became in the English language our present name 

 turkey. Such an explanation seems to be much more 

 probable than that the name arose as a result of an erro- 

 neous impression that the bird originated in or near 

 Turkey. 



