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coarse black bristles depending from centre of chest, and with leg-spur 
shorter than hind-toe, conical, and blunt. Adult male: Length about 48.00- 
50.00, wing 21.00, tail 18.50, weight 16-40 pounds. Adult female considerably 
smaller (average weight about 12 pounds), the colors duller. 
b.. Tail tipped with deep rusty, its coverts and feathers of lower rump tipped 
with rich dark chestnut. Hggs 2.42 1.83. Had. Hastern United 
States, north to southern Canada, south to Florida and eastern Texas, 
west to edge of Great Plains. 
(28.) 310. M. gallopavo (Linn.). Wild Turkey. 
b%, Tail, tail-coverts, and feathers of lower rump tipped with buffy whitish. 
Eggs 2.71 X 1.92, Hab. Table-lands of Mexico, and north to southern 
border of United States (western Texas to Arizona); south to Vera 
Cruz (temperate region). 
(29.) 8310a. M. gallopavo mexicana (GouLp). Mexican Turkey. 
a. Tail and its coverts tipped with intensely brilliant metallic copper-bronze ; 
ground-color of tail ash-gray ; feathers of lower back and rump rich steel- 
blue, those of lower parts bronzy black—all tipped with intensely rich metallic 
golden and coppery bronze; greater wing-coverts brilliantly metallic copper- 
bronze, without black tips. Adult male without beard-like tuft on chest, and 
with leg-spur longer (in older birds much longer) than hind-toe, thorn-shaped 
and very sharp. Size considerably less than in the more northern species. 
Hab. Yucatan and adjacent portions of Honduras (and Guatemala ?). 
M. ocellata TzemM., Ocellated Turkey.! 
Famity CRACIDZZ.—Tue Curassows anp Guans, (Page 184.) 
Genera. 
a, Cere wholly naked, the nostrils exposed; tarsi entirely naked. (Subfamily 
Cracine.) 
. Bill very stout, its depth through base equal to or greater than chord of 
culmen, the top of the cere elevated, distinctly arched ; feathers of crest 
recurved at tips; throat mostly feathered. (Very large: length 2} to 3 
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6%. Bill much weaker, its depth through base less than chord of culmen, the top 
of cere not distinctly elevated nor arched; feathers of crest (if any) not 
recurved at tip; throat naked, except a median narrow strip. 
c'. Larger (length about 2% to 3 feet); throat with a more or less distinct 
median “ dewlap.” 
d. Sexes alike in color, brownish above, striped with whitish be- 
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1 Meleagris ocellata Teum., Pl. Col. livr. 19, 1838, pl. 112. 
2 Crax Liny., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 157. Type, C. rubra Liny., = C. globicera Linn. et Auct. 
3 Penelope Menrem, Aves Icon. et Deser. ii, 1786, 40. Type, Meleagris cristata Linn. 
