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case of the wild bird, as contrasted with an evident thickness and 

 density of the bone, together with a general mellowing down of its 

 principal free edges, producing a certain lack of sharpness, in the 

 case of the domesticated one. 



Now to compare the details, I have chosen the skull, one from my 

 series, of a fine adult male specimen of M . g . merriami, it 



Fig. 33 Under view of the skull of Meleagris g . merriami; with man- 

 dible removed. Natural size, adult; from the same specimen shown in figure 31. Drawn 

 by the author, pmx, premaxillary; mxp, maxillopalatine; vnx, maxillary; pi, palatine; 

 j, jugal; f, frontal; qj, quadratojugal, eu 3 Eustachian tube, anterior aperture; bt, 

 basitemporal; oc, occipital condyle; so, supraoccipital; q, quadrate; pf, postfrontal; 

 pg. pterygoid; rbs, basisphenoidal rostrum; /, lacrymal ; vx, vomerine ossifications; n, 

 nasal. 



having all the features of a skull of a wild turkey well exemplified. 

 This skull I have drawn, natural size, in the present treatise [fig. 31, 

 33, 34, 36]. With the same care I have selected for illustration one 



