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Juvenal male. — Similar to that of M. g. silvestris but slightly paler, 

 the dark areas reduced on the wings and the brown slightly more "sandy 

 generally on the upperparts. 



AduU male.— Wing 462-468 (465) ; tail 346-385 (369.3) ; culmen from 

 cere 35-37 (35.8); tarsus 162-171 (166.3); middle toe without claw 

 78-«1.5 (80.2) ; length of tarsal spur 11.5-17 (14.7) ; diameter of tarsal 

 spur 11.5-12.5 (12.2 mm.).^^ 



Adult female.— Wmg 385-405 (392.3) ; tail 277-3Q2 (290.3) ; culmen 

 from cere 26.5-^2.5 (30.3) ; tarsus 126-138.5 (130.4) ; middle toe without 

 claw 61.5-71 (65 mm.). 23 



Range. — Resident from central Texas (San Antonio; Nueces River 

 near Corpus Christi ; Tom Green, Concho, Cameron, Motley, Kerr, Ken- 

 dall, Aransas, and Bexar Counties) ; south to Tamaulipas (Soto la 

 Marina; Forlon, Rio de la Cruz) ; Nuevo Leon (Montemorelos, Cerrode 

 la Silla), and northwestern Coahuila (Sabinas and La Palma), and ex- 

 treme southeastern San Luis Pdtosi (Micos) . ' ■ ' 



Type locality. — Lomita, Tex. 



Meleagris gallopavo (not of Linnaeus) Dresser, Ibis, 1866, 25 (se. Texas; ne. 

 Mexico). — CouES, Check List North Amer. Birds, 1874, No. 379, part. — 

 Sennett, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., Bull. 4, No. 1, 1878, S3 (Hidalgo, 

 lower Rio Grande); S, No. 3, 1879, 427 (Lomita, lower Rio Grande Valley, se. 

 Texas; crit.). — Merrill, Auk, i, 1878, 159 (Fort Brown and Hidalgo, se. Texas; 

 crit. ; descr. eggs). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 195, part; Nom. 

 North Amer. Birds, 1881, No. 470, part.— Brown, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vii, 

 1882, 41 (Boerne, Kendall County, Tex.).— Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 X, 1888, 657 (Bexar County, etc., Tex.).— Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., iii, No. 2, 1891, 321 (Nueces River, 20-30 miles w. of Corpus Christi, 

 Tex.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 284, part 

 (southern Texas and Tamaulipas). — Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 13 

 (Gomez Farias region, southwestern Tamaulipas; 1 seen). 



[Meleagris] gallopavo Coues, Key North Amer. Birds, 1872, 232, part. 



Meleagris mexicana (not of Gould) Elliot, New and Unfig. North Amer. Birds, 

 pt. 10, 1868 (vol. ii), text, pi. 38, part; Monogr. Phasiatlidae, i, 1870, text, pi. 

 28, part. 



Meleagris gallopavo mexicana American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 188^, 

 No. 310a, part. — Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 187 (Tom Green and Concho Counties, 

 w. Tex.). — Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi Valley, 1688, 107, part (San Antonio 

 and Concho Counties, Tex.). — BiNDiRE, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds^ i, 1892, 

 116, part.— Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 233 (San Antonio, Tex.). 



M[eleagris] gallopavo mexicana Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 207, part 

 (s. Texas). 



[Meleagris gallopavo] var. intermedia Sennett, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., 

 Bull. 5, No. 3, 1879, 428, in text (Lomita Ranch, lower Rio Grande Valley, s. 

 Tex.; coll. G. B. Sennett, type now in coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.). 



Meleagris gallopavo intermedia American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xvi, 1899, 

 108; Check-list, ed. 3, 1910, 146; ed. 4, 1931, 92— Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 



" Four specimens from Texas, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leon. 

 ''Eleven specimens from Texas, Tamaulipas; and Nuevo Leon. 



