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Shortly after the foregoing incident, while a 

 party of gentlemen, including my brother, were 

 hunting some five miles below the same creek, 

 they flushed a flock of wild turkeys, scattering 

 them ; one of the party killed four of them that 

 evening, two of which (hens) were full-blood 

 wild ones. One of the remaining two, a fine 

 gobbler, had as red a head as any tame gobbler, 

 and the tips of the tail and rump coverts were 

 white. The other bird (a hen) was also a half- 

 breed. There was no buff on their heads and 

 necks, but the purple and blue of the wild blood 

 was apparent. 



Early the next morning my brother went to 

 the place where the turkeys were scattered the 

 previous afternoon, and began to call. Very 

 soon he had a reply, and three fine gobblers 

 came running to him, when he killed two, one 

 with each barrel; now these were full-blood wild 

 ones. 



I have notedthat a number of wild turkeys in the 

 Brazos bottoms are very different in some respects 

 from the turkeys of the piney woods in the east- 

 ern section of that state. In Trinity County, 



