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Meleagris gallopavo merriami Nelson, Auk, XVII, 

 April, 1900, 120. 



(47 miles southwest of Winslow, Arizona.) 



Range. — Transition and Upper Sonoran zones in the 

 mountains of southern Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 western Texas, northern Sonora, and Chihuahua. 



d. Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scott. Florida Tur- 

 key [3106]. 



Meleagris gallopavo osceola Scott, Auk, VII, Oct., 

 1890, 376. (Tarpon Springs, Florida.) 

 Range. — Southern Florida. 



e. Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett. Rio 

 Grande Turkey [310c]. 



Meleagris gallopavo intermedia Sennett. Bull. U. S. 

 Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., V, No. 3, Nov., 1879, 428. 

 (Lomita, Texas.) 



Range. — Middle northern Texas south to northeastern 

 Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas. 



The presenting of the above list here does 

 away with giving, in the history of the wild tur- 

 keys, any of the very numerous changes that 

 have taken place through the ages which led up 

 to its adoption. The discussion of these changes, 

 as a part of meleagrine history, would make an 

 octavo volume of two hundred pages or more. 



It may be said here, however, that the word 

 gallopavo is from the Latin, g alius a cock, and 

 pavo a peafowl, while the meanings of the several 



