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cassell's book of birds. 



blackish brown, the primaries greyish white, and the secondaries brownish, striped with white ; the 

 tail-feathers are brown, dotted and marked with black. The bare parts of the head and throat are pale 

 sky-blue, the warts that cover the face bright red, and the lower region of the eye ultramarine-blue. 

 The eye is yellowish blue, die beak whitish grey, and the foot pale violet or bright red. This species 

 is from forty to forty-four inches long, and from fifty-three to sixty broad; the wing measures eighteen 

 and the tail fifteen inches. The jilumage of the hen, though somewhat resembling that of the male, 



THE OCELLATED TURKEY {Meiea^ris OCellata), ONE-FIFTH NATURAL SIZE. 



is much less beautifully coloured ; her length does not exceed thirty-five inches, and her breadth 

 forty-eight inches and a half ; the wing measures fifteen and the tail eleven inches. 



Of the many accounts respecting the life of the Wild Turkey of North America, none is more 

 excellent than the following from the pen of Audubon : — " The unsettled parts of the States of 

 Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, an immense extent of country to the north-west of those 

 districts upon the Mississippi and Missouri, and the vast regions drained by these rivers fi-om their 

 confluence to Louisiana, including the wooded parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Alabama, are 

 most abundantly supplied with this magnificent bird. It is less plentiful in Georgia and the 

 Carolinas, becomes still scarcer in Virginia and Pennsylvania, and is now very rarely seen to the east 



