BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 447 



one seen— Old Black Mountain).— Long, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., xliii, 1940, 



441 (Kansas; formerly abundant resident; now extinct). — Campbell, Bull. 



Toledo Mus. Sci., i, 1940, 65 (Lucas County, Ohio; formerly common; last 



record 1892).— Todd, Birds Western Pennsylvania, 1940, 178 (w. Pennsylvania; 



descr. ; habits; syn. ; bibl.). — Trautman, Misc. Publ. Univ. Michigan Mus. 

 ■ Zool., No. 44, 1940, 227 (Buckeye Lake, Ohio; formerly common resident; 



now extirpated ).^GooDPASTER, Journ. Cincinnati Soc. Nat. Hist., xxii, 1941, 



13 (sw. Ohio ; formerly common, now practically extirpated in settled districts ; 



bones in Indian village sites). — Hellmaye and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., i. 



No. 1, 1942, 292 (distr. ; syn.). — Pearson, Brimley, and Brimley, Birds North 



Carolina, 1942, 110 (North Carolina; status; habits). — Cruickshank, Birds 



New York City, 1942, 154 (extirpated) . — Mosby and Handley, Wild Turkey in 



Virginia, 1943, 4, ff. (distr.; monogr. ; management). 

 Meleagres gallopavo silvestris Johnston, Birds West Virginia, 1923, 88 (West 



Virginia) . 

 Mleleogris] gallopavo var. sylvestris Ridgway, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist, New York, 



X, 1874, 382 (Illinois). 

 [Meleagris] gallopavo silvestris Baillie and Harrington, Contr. Roy. Ontario 



Mus. Zool., No. 8, pt. 1, 1936, 31, in text (Ontario; extirpated). — Petrides, 



Trans 7th North Amer. Wildlife Conf., 1942, 325, in text (age indicators in 



plumage). 

 Mleleagris] g[allopavo] silvestris Wright, Auk, xxxi, 1914, 343, in text (early 



records).— MooRE, Auk, Iv, 1938, 113 in text, 114 (spec; crit.). — Leopold, 



Condor, xlv, 1943, 133, in text (molts of young). 

 Gallopavo sylvestris LeCOnte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, ix, 1857, 179-181 



(crit.; ex Ray). 

 Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris Allen, Auk, xix, 1902, 420 in text. — Jones, Birds 



Ohio, Revised Cat., 1903, 85 (Ohio; prob. extinct). — Woodruff, Chicago Acad. 



Sci. Bull., vi, 1907, 86 (extirpated in Chicago area). 

 Meleagris fera Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ix, 1817, 447; Gal. Ois., ii, 



1825, 10, pi. 201.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 42.— Elliot, 



Auk, xvi, 1899, 232 (crit. on p. 231). 

 [Mekagris] fera Sharpe, Hand-Ust, i, 1899, 43. 

 Meleagris gallopavo fera CouES, Auk, xvi, 1899, 77. — American Ornithologists' 



Union, Auk, xvi, 1899, 108.— Beyer, Proc. Louisiana Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 



(1900), 98 (Louisiana).— Allen, Proc. Manchester Inst. Sci. and Arts, iv, 1902, 



94 (formerly resident in s. New Hampshire). — Kumuen and Hollister, Bull. 



Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc, iii, 1903, 58 (Wisconsin). 

 Meleagris gallopavofera Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 



254 (Kansas; now rare; formerly abundant). 

 Meleagris gallopavo fera Nash, Check List Birds Ontario, 1900, 27 (Ontario, 



formerly common). ' 

 Meleagris gallapavo, var. occidentalis Allen, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, i, 1876, 55 



(extirpated in New England; ex Meleagris occidentalis Bartram, Travels in 



Florida, etc., 1791, 88:=nomen nudum). 



meleagris gallopavo osceola scou 



Florida Turkey 



Adult male. — Similar to that of Meleagris gallopavo silvestris but 

 smaller and with the remiges with the white bars very much narrower 



