232 WILD TURKEY. 
WILD TURKEY. (Meleagris gallopavo.) 
PLATE IX.—MaueE anp FEMALE. 
Meleagris gallopavo, Linn. Syst. i. p. 268, sp. 1.—@mel. Syst. i. p. 732. sp. 1.— 
Lath. Ind. p. 618, sp. 1.—Temm. Hist. Nat. des Pig. et Gall. Index, iii. p. 
676. —Wilson, Am. Orn. vi. Index, p. xvii.—Stephens, Cont. of Shaw’s Zool. 
xi. parti. p. 156, pl. 8.—Ranzani, Elem. di Zool. iii. part i. p. 154.—Melea- 
gris sylvestris, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. ix. p. 447.—Gallopavo, 
Aldrovandi, Orn. ii. p. 35, fig. on p. 39, domestic variety, male; fig. on p. 
40, id. female.— Willoughby, Orn. p. 113, pl. 27, fig. 4, dom. var. male.— 
Johnston, Theatrum Universale de Avibus, p. 55, pl. 24, fig. 1, dom. var. male ; 
fig. 2, id. female.—Briss. Av. i. p. 158, pl. 16, dom. var. male.—Gallus 
Indicus, Welscher Han, Johnston, Th. Av. p. 83, pl. 29, fig. 1, dom. var. 
male.—Gallopavo sylvestris Nove-Angliz, a New England Wild Turkey, Ray, 
Syn. p. 51, sp. 3.—Gallopavo sylvestris, Catesby, Carolina, i. App. p. xliv.— 
Meleagris Americanus, the Wild Turkey, Bartr. Trav. p. 290.—Gallo Pavo, 
Gallo Pavone volgarmente Pollo d’India, Storia degli Uccelli, ii. pl. 222, 
dom. crested var. male; pl. 223, dom. white, black spotted var. young; pl. 
224, dom. white, yellowish spotted var. young ; pl. 225. dom. black, var. 
young ; pl. 226, dom. black, white spotted var. young.—Coc d’Inde, Belon, 
Histoire de la Nature des Oiseaux, p. 248, with fig. dom. var. male.—Dindon, 
Buff. Otis. ii. p. 132, pl. 3.—Pl. enl. 97, dom. whitish, var. male.—TZemm. 
Hist. Nat. des Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 374.—Gerardin, Tabl. Elem. d Orn. ii. p- 
103, pl. 21, fig. 2. dom. var. male.—Turkie, Josselyn, Voyages to New 
England, p. 99.—New England’s Rarities, p. 8.—Wild Turkey, Clayton, 
Virginia Phil. Trans. xvii. p. 992.—Id. Abridg. iii. p. 590.—Lawwson, 
Carolina, p. 149.—Penn. Phil. Trans. \xxi. p. 67.—Arct. Zool. sp. 178.— 
American Turkey, Lath. Syn. ii. part ii. p. 676, sp. 1.—Domestic Turkey, 
Penn. Brit. Zool. i. sp. 97. 
MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO.—\Unvevs.* 
Meleagris gallopavo, Bonap. Synop. p. 123.—The Wild Turkey, Aud. m. pl. 1, 
fem. and young, p. vi.—Orn. Biog. i. pp. 1 and 33.—Gard. and Menag. of 
Zool. Soc. Birds, p. 209. 
THE native country of the wild turkey extends from the 
north-western territory of the United States to the Isthmus 
* The natural history of the turkey is so well and fully detailed by 
our author, that almost nothing can be added, even from the later 
observations of Audubon. From the evidence that has been col- 
lected, there seems to be little doubt that Great Britain is indebted, in 
a secondary way, for the introduction of these valuable domestic birds ; 
and I have added the observations of Mr Bennet on the subject of its 

