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Sometimes this domesticated bird is exactly like its wild original, differing 

 only in rather greater development of the fatty lobes of the head and neck, and of 

 this an example may be seen in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. 



There is a variety of the domestic bird which is entirely black, sometimes 

 even including the larger quills, which in both species are naturally banded with 

 white, and in this there may be little or no trace of any bands at the end of the 

 tail and of its upper coverts ; but whatever may be the asseverations of the 

 sportsman, the poultry dealer or the farmer as to the wildness of any particular 

 bird, or what the circumstances attendant upon its capture or death by trapping, 

 shooting or otherwise, implicit confidence may be placed in the test above 

 indicated, namely : if the tips of the tail coverts and tail are chestnut brown, the 

 specimen belongs to the M. gallopavo or " Wild turkey," if the same part is either 

 entirely black or any shade of whitish or light fulvous, then it is a " barnyard ' r 

 fowl. 



