50 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



II, pp. 132-162), Broderip (Zool. Recreat. pp # 

 120-137), Pennant (Arct. Zool. pp. 291-300), and 

 others, practically cleared up nearly all the 

 points on this part of the turkey's history, mak- 

 ing but a few statements that are not wholly 

 reliable and worthy of acceptance. Pennant 

 very properly ignored in his work Barrington's 

 essay (Miscellanies, pp. 127-151) in which the 

 latter attempted to prove that turkeys were 

 known before America was discovered, and that 

 they were shipped over there subsequently to 

 its discovery ! 



I have already cited above Pennant's article 

 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal 

 Society of London (1781), and quoted from it to 

 some extent. It is one of the standard writings 

 on the wild turkey invariably referred to by 

 all authors when writing on the history of that 

 bird. As it is only accessible to the few, and so 

 full of reliable information, I propose to give 

 here, somewhat in full, those paragraphs in it 

 having special reference to the historical side of 

 our subject, and in doing so I retain the spelling 

 and composition of the original production. 



