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than the dark interspaces and on the whole less incomplete^* ; the rectrices 

 brown-tipped as in silvestris in most birds, but occasionally their tips paler 

 and more buffy; the innermost secoridaries averaging more grayish; 

 the tips of the upper tail coverts slightly paler, more chestnut,' and the 

 tarsal spurs averaging somewhat longer and sharper, i.e., more attenuate, 

 less blunt, and the general effect of the metallic reflections averaging more 

 brilliantly red and green, less bronzy. 



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

 differing from it in the same characters as do the adult males of the two 

 races. 



Suhadult.- — Similar to. the adult of the corresponding sex but with the 

 beard shorter, and in the male the tarsal spurs and the frontal appendage 

 smaller. 



Immature. — Similar to the suhadult of the corresponding sex but with 

 the two outer juvenal primaries. 



Juvenal. — Sirnilar to that of M. g. silvestris. 

 ' Natal rfown.-^Like that of M. g. silvestris but head and back slightly 

 darker. 



' Adult male.— Wing 430-487 (462) ; tail 345-390 (362.8) ; culmen from 

 cere 30.5-35.5 (32.9) ; tarsus 159.5-174 (169.8) ; middle toe without claw 

 70-82.5 (76.4); length of tarsal spur 17-32 (25.1); diameter of tarsal 

 spur 9.5-13 (11.6 mm.).2» 



■'Adult female.— Wing 354-390 (368.7) ; tail 268-304 (291); culmen 

 from cere 26.8-31 (29.1) ; tarsus 125.5-135.5 (132.3) ; middle toe without 

 claw 59-68 (63.2 mm.). 21 



Range. — Resident chiefly in the dense hammocks and the dry swamps, 

 but also in open pineland and saw palmetto prairies in Florida from at 

 least as far north as Gainesville and the lower Aucilla River south to 

 Royal Palm Hammock. 



Type locality. — ^Tarpon Springs; Fla. 



Meleagris gallopavo (not of Linnaeus) Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoo!., ii, 1871, 

 , 342 (e. Florida).— Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 246 (Gulf coast, Fla.). 



Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scott, Auk, vii, 1890, 376 (Tarpon Springs, 

 w. Florida; coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.) ; ix, 1892, 212, 215 ( Caloosahatchie 

 region, sw. Florida; habits, etc.). — American Ornithologists' , Union, Auk, 

 ix, 1892, 109; xvi, 1899, 105; xviii, 1901, 310; Check-list, ed. 2, 189S, 118; ed. 

 3, 1910, 146; ed. 4, 1931, 92.— Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1896, 

 590.— Palmer, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 27-28, in text (instinctive stillness). —Baynard, 

 Auk, XXX, 1913, 243 (Alachua County, Fla. ) .—Howell, Auk, xxxviii, 1921, 255 

 Royal Palm Hammock Fla.; very rare resident). — Bailey, Birds Florida, i, 

 1925, 1, 60, pi. 32 (fig.; distr. ; Florida) .—Bent and Copeland, Auk, xliv, 



"One specimen seen (from Kissithniee, Ra., U. S. N. M. No. 124396) in which 

 the wing quills agree with the characters of silvestris. 

 " Eleven specimens. 

 " Nine specimens. ' 



