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coarse black bristles depending from centre of chest, and with leg-spur 

 shorter than hind-toe, conical, and blunt. Adult male : Length about 48.00- 

 50.00, wing 21.00, tail 18.50, weight 16-40 pounds. Adult female considerably 

 smaller (average weight about 12 pounds), the colors duller. 

 b\ Tail tipped with deep rusty, its coverts and feathers of lower rump tipped 

 with rich dark chestnut. Eggs 2.55 X 1-79. Hob. Eastern United 

 States, north to southern Canada, south to Florida and eastern Texas, 

 west to edge of Great Plaftis. 



310. M. gallopavo (LINN.). Wild Turkey. 



b>. Tail, tail-coverts, and feathers of lower rump tipped with buffy whitish. 

 Eggs 2.35 X 1-79- Hab. Table-lands of Mexico, and north to southern 

 border of United States (western Texas to Arizona) ; south to Vera 

 Cruz (temperate region). 



310a. M. gallopavo mexicana (GOULD). Mexican Turkey. 

 Tail and its coverts tipped with intensely brilliant metallic copper-bronze; 

 ground-color of tail ash-gray ; feathers of lower back and rump rich steel- 

 blue, those of lower parts bronzy black all tipped with intensely rich metallic 

 golden and coppery bronze ; greater wing-coverts brilliantly metallic copper- 

 bronze, without, black tips. Adult male without beard-like tuft on chest, and 

 with leg-spur longer (in older birds much longer) than hind-toe, thorn-shaped 

 and very sharp. Size considerably less than in the more northern species. 

 Hab. Yucatan and adjacent portions of Honduras (and Guatemala?). 



M. ocellata TEMM. Ocellated Turkey. 1 



FAMILY CRACID^E. THE CURASSOWS AND GUANS. (Page 184.) 



Genera. 



a 1 . Cere wholly naked, the nostrils exposed ; tarsi entirely naked. (Subfamily 



Oocirnz.) 



b\ Bill very stout, its depth through base equal to or greater than chord of 

 culmen, the top of the cere elevated, distinctly arched; feathers of crest 

 recurved at tips ; throat mostly feathered. (Very large : length 2 J to 3 



feet.) Crax? 



6 2 . Bill much weaker, its depth through base less than chord of culmen, the top 

 of cere not distinctly elevated nor arched ; feathers of crest (if any) not 

 recurved at tip ; throat naked, except a median narrow strip. 

 c 1 . Larger (length about 2 to 3 feet) ; throat with a more or less distinct 



median " dewlap." 



d 1 . Sexes alike in color, brownish above, striped with whitish be- 

 neath Penelope? 



1 Meleagris ocellata TEMM., PI. Col. livr. 19, 1838, pi. 112. 



2 Crax LINN., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 157. Type, C. rubra LINN., = C. globicera LINN, et Acer. 



3 Penelope MERREM, Aves Icon, et Descr. ii. 1786, 40. Type, Meleagris cristata LINN. 



