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and tinged with grey, the lower light-grey, longitudinally 

 streaked with black. 



Male, 7i, 16. 



This species is generally dispersed over the United States 

 and British Colonies of North America in summer. As we 

 have so many visitants from that continent of late years, it 

 would not be very surprising to find a colony of wild Turkeys 

 in Cunnemara, especially as that species is already reported 

 to have settled in Dalmatia. As M. Temminck says of the 

 ornithologists, " tout le monde s'en mele." The birds them- 

 selves seem to be nearly as unsettled. We have winged visi- 

 ters from the Pole, from Scandinavia, Iceland, America, 

 Southern Europe, Africa, and Asia. Possibly a still greater 

 interchange may yet take place, and wandering birds become 

 permanently resident with us. As to the unsettled state of 

 ornithology itself, opinions must always fluctuate until know- 

 ledge is perfect, which, I presume, few will assert it to be. 



END OF LAND BIRDS. 



