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form of turkeys, mij^ht properly be assigned a full specific rank. 

 These noble birds are too well known to make it necessary to go 

 into any details regarding them, beyond the accounts given in 

 the various articles in the body of this book. From the Mexican 

 and not from the North American bird came our stock of 

 domestic Turkeys, and nearly all the latter exhibit in their light 

 rumps and upper tail-coverts the proof of their descent. The 

 so-called Hronze Turkey of the farm-yard has, however, a large 

 percentage of the blood of the wild Northern bird in his veins. 



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KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Tail tipped with deep rusty, upper tail- 

 coverts tipped with chestnut. 



a. Bars on primaries reaching the shafts. [ 



b. Bars on primaries not reaching the \_ 

 shafts. 



B. Tail and upper coverts tipped with och- 

 raceous buff. 



C. Tail and upper coverts tipped with white. 



WILD TURKEY. 



M. sylvestris. 



FLORIDA WILD 

 TURKEY. 



M. s. osceola. 

 Elliot's rio 



GRANDE 

 TURKEY. 



M. s. ellioti. 



MEXICAN WILD 

 TURKEY. 



M. gallopavo. 



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