1881. ] Be in our Domestic Antimals. 959 
I heard of but two places where the pea fowl had gone wild. 
The first was at the plantation of Col. Judd, before mentioned, and 
the other was the plantation of Capt. McKee, on the Island of 
Maui, whence the birds had escaped and gone into the mount- 
ain above. No change was observed except that they had be- 
come wild, but not excessively so, and I did not learn that they 
had been much hunted in either case. 
At what time the domestic turkey was first taken to the islands, 
I'did not learn, but probably not very long after their discovery, 
or certainly soon after the arrival of the first missionary, which 
occurred in 1820. We may safely assume that soon after, some 
of them wandered away and reverted to the wild state, and now 
they are found, more or less abundant, in the forest regions of 
most of the islands. They have not yet beome as wary and diffi- 
cult of approach as are the wild turkeys here. The natives trap 
them with some success. At Haiku I found two hens in confine- 
ment which Mr. Dickey had purchased from a native who had 
caught them. I studied them with great interest. They were 
in a large poultry house, the front of which was closed with slats. 
On approaching them they showed about as much alarm as our 
wild turkey would, similarly situated. A very decided tendency 
Was shown to revert to the color of our wild turkey. The legs had 
already assumed a lightish color with a pink shade, though not 
so brilliant as in the wild ancestor, but quite unlike the black leg 
of the black tame turkey. The color of the plumage had also 
undergone a marked change. The ends of the tail feathers and 
of the tail coverts had assumed a tawny or russet shade, hardly so 
Pronounced as in our wild turkey, but a great departure from all 
tame turkeys. My observations in domesticating the wild tur- 
_ key show that they first degenerate in their coloring in these two 
points, The white bars on the wing feathers were there, but they 
are not always absent on the domesticated turkey. 
In form, too, a change was manifest; the legs were longer and 
the body was longer and more erect than in the tame bird. Al- 
together the tendency to revert to the form, coloring and habit 
of their wild ancestors was very marked. I say their wild ances- 
tors, for I think I showed ‘satisfactorily, in a paper published in 
_ this journal for June, 1877, that the domestic turkey of this 
country is descended from our wild turkey. | 
I heard of the barnyard fowl which had gone wild in several 
