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NOKTII AMKIMCAN IflUD.S. 



Tlie M. occUtifim^ of lloiuluras ftiid Vucatiiu is a very ilistiiict species, mid 

 one which vies with tiie J'/ut/iianiihr ol' Asia in the brilliancy of its coloring. 

 It is very rare in collections, and has a very restricted distribution. 



Meleagris gallopavo, var. gallopavo, Linx. 



WILD TUBXET. 



Mclmyrh gallopavo, Lisx.tu'm, Syst. Nat. I, U.'iS, 156. — (Jmkms, I, 1788, 732.— 

 I.ATii.VM, IikI. Orii. II, 17mi, (iI8. — SiKi'iiKSs, in Slmw's Zuiil. XI, i, ISIU, \M 

 (iloimstiu bin!).— lioNAl'. Am. Orii. I, 1825, 7'.i, ]>1. ix. — Al'lt. Oiii. lUoj,'. I, 18111, 

 1 mill 33 ; V, 183ii, IJi)\), \>\. i. — lu. IJinls Aiiicr. V, 18-12, 42, jil. cclx-wvii, I't'l.x.xxviii. 

 — NuTT.M,!., Muii. I, 1832, (530. — ItKiciiKNU.vcii, Systi'iiiii Av. 1851, \<\. xxvi. — In. 

 Iconi'.s Av. tab. 289. — lUiiiit, Hmls N. Am. 1858, lil5. — Diiksskh, Ibis, 1800, 25 

 (Soiithcasti'iii Texas, IiicmIs). — M.vx. I'al). .1. VI, 1858, 420. Miihaijcii itinerimmi, lUll- 

 TU.v.M, Travels, 17itl, 2i)0. Mckiuji-iHuijIirslrii, ViKii.i.. Nouv. Diet. IX, 447. t/allopueo 

 sjjhmtri.s, I.KrdNTi:, I'r. A. N. .Se. I'liil. 1857, 17U. Mikwjris ffni, Viimi.i.ot, Galciiu 

 Ois. II, 1S24, 10, [il. X. — (ilt.vv. Cat. (iall. V, 42. 1807.— Wild Turknj, C'l,AYTo.s, 

 riiilos. Trans. XVII, 1003, 0!)2. — PKXXANr, I'hilos. Tniiis. LXXI, 1781, 67. — lu. 

 Arctic Zoiil. '.'(). 178. American Turkey, Latham, Syn. II, ii, 676. Oallu/Hiiv 

 si/h-cslri.i, Xuctv AiiijUtc, liAV, Syn. 51. (Iiillopuvo sijhrstris, Catksdv, Carol. I, 1730, 

 App. !>. xliv. — HiiiK.so.N, Orn. V, 1700, 102. 



Sp. Ciiah. The naked skin of the head .ind neck i.>* l)bie; the excrescence.s purphsh- 

 red. The legs are red. The feathers of the neck and body generally are very broad, 

 abrujitly truncate, and each one well defined and scale-like; the exposed portion coppery- 



Meleagris gallopavo. 



bronze, with a bright coppery redention in some light.<!, in the .«pecimcn.s before us chiefly 

 on the under part.s. Each feather is abruptly margined with velvet-bl.ick, the bronze 

 as.suniiiig a greeni.«h or purplish .shade near the line of junction, and the bronze itself 

 sometimes with a greenish reflection in some lights. Tiie black is opaque, except along 



1 Meleagris occllatus, Tkmm., Cabot, Pr. Bost. Soe. Nat. Hi.st. I, 73. 



