BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 449 



1927, 380 (Charlotte County, Fla.).— Christy, Auk, xlv, 1928, 288 (edge of Big 

 Cypress, s. Florida.).— Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp..,Zool., Ixx, 1930, 158 (type 

 in Mus. Comp. Zool. ) .—Howell, Florida Bird Life, 1932, 195 (genl; Florida). 

 —Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 162, 1932, 340 (habits).— Peters, Check-list 

 Birds World, ii, 1934, 140.— Ghigi, Gallini di Faraone e Tacchini, 1936, 329 

 (genl.).— HelLm AYR and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer'., 1, No. 1, 1942, 292.— 

 MosBV and Handley, Wild Turkey in Virginia, 1943, 4 (distr.). 



Meleagris fera osceola Elliot, Auk, xvi, 1899, 232. • ' , 



M[eleagns\ g[allopavo] osceola Wright, Auk, xxxi, 1914, 343 in text (early rec- 

 ords).— Moore, Auk, Iv, 1938, 113 in text, 114 (spec; crit.). 



[Meleagris americana] Subsp. a Meleagris osceola Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxii, 1893, 390 (Tarpon Springs, Fla.). 



[Meleagris] osceola Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 43. 



M[eleagris] osceola Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 305. 



Meleagris occidentalis Bartram, Travels in Florida, etc., 1791, 83 (near Pincolata, 

 Fla. ; nomen nudum). 



MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO INTERMEDIA Senii«tt 



Rio Grande Turkey 



Adult male. — Similar to that of M. g. silvestris but smaller and with 

 the upper tail coverts and the rectrices with paler tips, those of the coverts 

 being cinnamon-buff with a slight tawny tinge, those of the rectrices being 

 Venus brown paling distally to pinkish cinnamon; the rectrices in many 

 specimens tend to be more barred with blackish over the area basal to the 

 black subterminal band, the brown interspaces somewhat freckled with 

 blackish in others, they are vermiculated on the more median ones; the 

 tips of the flank feathers paler and more cinnamomeous ; the lower back 

 and rump almost solid glossy blackish with rather faint subterminal bluish- 

 green reflections (not pinkish or' coppery as in silvestris) ; the metallic 

 reflections of the rest of the body more brilliant, less bronzy, agreeing in 

 this respect with M. g. osceola, inner webs of innermost secondaries more 

 heavily mottled with dusky and their outer webs more strongly glossed 

 with greenish purplish ; other secondaries darker, the brown areas fuscous ; 

 tarsal spur short and stubby as in silvestris; tips of under tail coverts a;nd 

 flanks paler — cinnamon-buffy. Birds from Wichita Mountains, Okla., 

 are intermediate between silvestris and intermedia, more like silvestris 

 in the color of the inner webs of the inner secondaries and the barring of 

 the rectrices. 



Adult female. — Similar to that of M. g. silvestris but smaller and with 

 the feathers of lower back and rump and the upper tail coverts and the 

 rectrices with paler tips — cinnamon-buif to fairly pale pinkish buff; the 

 rectrices averaging more definitely barred proximal to the subterminal 

 black band; secondaries paler, more whitish on their outer margins, the 

 innermost ones sandy grayish cinnamon-buff ; feathers of the breast, upper 

 abdomen, sides, arid flanks tipped with pale pinkish buff. 



