15O TURKEYS. 



C. TURKEYS. Meleagridae. 



Large birds with naked heads and necks with a tuft of 

 black bristles depending from up- Fig. 183, 

 per breast ; tail, long and fan-like ; 

 tarsus, furnished with a spur. 

 a. Turkeys. Meleagris. 



Feathers, more or less irides- 

 cent. 



1. WILD TURKEY, M. GAL- 

 LIP AVO. 45.00; differs from the 

 dark form of the well known do- 

 I*, B, d, 1. mestic turkey in being rather more P, B, d,2. 

 brilliant in the iridescent tints and in having the feet red- 

 dish. U. S. from Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf Coast and west 

 to the plains. 



1*. FLORIDA TURKEY, M. o. OSCEOLA. Darker than 

 1 with little white on wings, this when present appears as de- 

 tached bars which are narrow and broken, not reaching the 

 shaft of the feather. Southern Fla. 



Q. PIGEOTVS. OolnmJbae. 

 Birds of varying size with long wings and well developed 

 tails ; bill, weak and with a soft, naked space above nostrils. 

 Flight, rapid and direct with quick wing-beats. Eggs 2, 

 white, placed in stick-built nests often in trees but sometimes 

 on the ground or rocky shelves of caves ; young hatched help- 

 less and naked and are fed by regurgitation. Inhabit all sec- 

 tions of temperate and tropical zones. Food, vegetable sub- 

 stances. 



A. DOVES. Columbidae. 



Tail feathers, 12 or 14 ; tarsus, slightly feathered in front, 

 birds of wide distribution. 



a. Pig-eons. Columba. 



Rather large with short or rounded tails ; colors, dull. 

 1. WHITE-CROWNED PIGEON, C. LEUCOCEPHALA. 

 13.00; dark slaty-blue; top of head, white; sides and lower 

 portions of neck, iridescent with greenish and gold and each 



