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FAMILY PHASIAXID.E. PHKASANTS: ETC. 

 Large tine game birds, gregarious, polygamous. 



SUBFAMILY MELEAGRIN^E. TURKEYS. 

 GENUS MELEAGBIS LINN. 



1:57 31 (554). Meleagris gallopavo Linn. *WILD TURKEY. 



Once very common: "none observed in Upper Peninsula" (A. H. Boies); formerly 

 large flocks were seen on the college farm; now extinct except north; ''extinct in Mont- 

 calm county*' (Prof. Jas. Satterlee); "I do not believe there is a turkey north of an 

 east and west line passing through Hough ton Lake " (Dr. M. L. Leach); all seasons of the 

 year; breeds; nests in May. on the ground; eggs nine to twelve, occasionally as many as 

 eighteen, creamy white, spotted with brown; "eggs creamy white thickly spotted with 

 small npecks of rusty brown and umber" (H. Nehrling); excellent for table; Jerome 

 Trombley reports an old bird, with brood, in Monroe county, in 1888; J. B. Purdy writes 

 me that young were taken in Wayne in 1888, and eggs in Kent county in 1891. It is an 

 interesting fact that this species is omitted in the excellent list of the late Dr. A. 

 Sager. A number of fine turkeys were caught here a few years ago in a log pen into 

 which they passed through a hole dug in the ground, underneath one side, as they 

 picked up corn which was placed in this trench. Once in the pen, they only looked up. 

 and so they were successfully caged. 



ORDER COLUMBJC. PIGEONS. 



FAMILY COLUMBID^E. PIGEONS AND DOVES. 

 These birds are granivorous. as well as insectivorous. 

 GENUS ECTOP18TES SWAIN. 



Wild Pigeon, reduced. 



i38-315-{543). Eetopistes miarjitorius ' (Linn.}. *WILD PIGEON; PASSENGFR 



PIGEON. 

 Once very common, now equally rare; as a boy I saw immense flocks in Shiawasseo 



