TURKEY SHOOTING 437 
Audubon says that sometimes, after people had be- 
come surfeited with the flesh of turkeys, they failed 
to visit the traps which they had baited for some time, 
and so the poor birds were allowed to starve to death. 
Another means of slaughtering turkeys, of which 
we read, is by laying a trail of corn in some place 
where turkeys congregate; then, hiding near at hand, 
the gunner prepares to shoot at their heads and necks 
when all are busily engaged in picking up the corn. 
In April, 1900, E. W. Nelson, the distinguished 
field naturalist of the Biological Survey, described a 
new sub-species of wild turkey from Arizona, under 
the name Meleagris gallopavo merriami. This bird is 
found in the mountains of Arizona, western New Mex- 
ico, and south as far as the Mexican border, extending 
north into southwestern Colorado. 
Little has been written about this bird, which pre- 
sumably does not differ in habits from its relatives. 
Because it is so little known, we are glad to quote an 
account written by E. A. Goldman, who secured for the 
Biological Survey the specimens from which Mr. 
Nelson described the subspecies. 
He has been Mr. Nelson’s companion on many 
expeditions, and in the Auk, in 1902, described a trip he 
made into the Mogollon Mountains of northern Ari- 
zona to secure a series of wild turkeys. He started 
in January, 1900, and was very successful. The 
weather was cold, and promised snow, which raised 
the collector’s spirits, since, of course, with snow on 
the ground turkeys would be more easily tracked and 
