' Sometimes this domesticated bird is exactly like its wild 
only in rather greater development of the fatty lobes of the head 
this an example may be seen in the museum of the Smithsonian Insti 
ye. There is a variety of the domestic bird which is entirely black, 
even ineluding the larger quills, which in both species are naturally b 
a white, andin this there may be little or no trace of any bands at the 
tail and of its upper coverts; but whatever may be the asseverati 
sportsman, the poultry dealer or the farmer as to the wildness of any 
. bird, or what the circumstances attendant upon its capture or death b 
PP shooting or otherwise, implicit confidence may be placed in the 
“24 indicated, namely : if the tips of the tail coverts and tail are chestnut k 
a specimen belongs to the M. gallopavo or ‘‘ Wild turkey,” if the same part 
e entirely black or any shade of whitish or light fulvous, then it is a “ bai 
a fowl. 
