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Melleagris] gallopavo Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., xiv, pt. 1, 1826, 297, part. 

 Meleagris gallopavo Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., ix, 1817, 447, part.— Stephens, 

 in Shaw, Gen. Zool., x, 1819, 156, pi. 8.— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. S, 

 Gallinae, 1867, 42, part.— American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, xvi, 1899, 

 107, part (tableland of Mexico). 



M[eleagris] gallopavo Keyserling and Blasius, Wirbelth. Eur., 1840, Ixv, 200.— 

 CouES, Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 576, part.— Cubas, Cuadro Geo- 

 graph., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 171, 

 (common names, Mexico). — Nelson, Auk, xvii, 1900, 123 in text (crit.). 



Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 

 3, 1910, 145, part.- Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 140, part.— Ghigi, 

 Gallini di Faraone e Tacchini, 1936, 323 (genl.).— Hellmayr and Conover, 

 Cat. Birds Amer., No. 1, 1942, 294, part.— Mosby and Handley, Wild Turkey 

 in Virginia, 1943, 4, part (distr.; part). 



M[eleagris] g[allopavo] gallopavo Moore, Auk, Iv, 1938, 112 in text, 113, 115 (crit. 

 spec). 



[Meleagris] [gallopavo] gallopavo Wheaton, Rep. Birds Ohio, 1882, 444 (distr.). 



Meleagris mexicana Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, 125, part (monogr.). — 

 Elliot, New and Unfig. North Amer. Birds, pt. 10, 1868 (vol. ii), pi. 38 and 

 text, part; Monogr. Phasianidae, i, 1872, pi. 28 and text, part. — Baird, in 

 Cooper, Orn. California, Land Birds, 1870, 523, part. — Beristain and Lauren- 

 Cio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vii, Nos. 7, 8, 1894, 219 (Vera- 

 cruz; Oaxaca). 



[Meleagris] mexicana Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137, part. 



Meleagris gallopavo, var. mexicana Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North 

 Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 410, part. 



[Meleagris gallopavo var. americana] a gallopavo CouES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 

 391, part (in synonymy). 



Meleagris gallopavo mexicana American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, 

 No. 310a, part; ed. 2, 1895, No. 310a, part.— Cooke, Bird Migr. Mississippi 

 Valley, 1888, 107, part (tablelands of Mexico). 



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

 (Veracruz) . 



Gallopavo primus Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 490, pi. 82, fig. 2 (new name for 

 Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus). 



MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO MEXICANA GonId« 



Gould's Turkey 



Adult male. — Similar to that of M. g. gallopavo but with the upper 

 back and wing coverts duller, more purplish bronzy, and with the lower 



™ The use of the name mexicana is unfortunately still unsettled and must remain 

 so until it is possible to examine the type specimen critically. Furtherrnore, the 

 type locality is also uncertain and has been arrived at by faunal inference rather 

 than by definite data. If it were to be accepted as originally given — Real del Monte, 

 Hidalgo, it would seem (from geographic reasoning) that mexicana would probably 

 have to be treated as a synonym of gallopavo, but if Nelson's interpretation of the 

 case be followed and the type locality be considered as Bolafios, northern Jalisco, 

 the course here adopted would be the correct one. At any rate, there are two 

 distinct forms of the turkey involved in the currently used comprehensive "gallopavo" 

 concept, and the names mexicana and gallopavo are used here in an attempt to 

 render more distinct the two forms and their literature. 



