X INTRODUCTION 



careful observer and lover of the wild turkey, 

 and for many years the study of this bird oc- 

 cupied almost his entire time. I feel safe in 

 saying that Mr. Jordan knew more of the ways 

 of the wild turkey in the wilds than any man 

 who ever lived. No more convincing example 

 of his patience and perseverance in his study of 

 the bird can be given than the accompanying 

 photographs, all of which were taken of the wild 

 birds in the big outdoors by Mr. Jordan. 



At the time of Mr. Jordan's death he was in 

 his sixty-seventh year and was manager of the 

 Morris game preserve of over 10,000 acres, near 

 Hammond, La. He had been most successful in 

 attracting to this preserve a great abundance of 

 game, and was very active in suppressing poach- 

 ing and illegal hunting. His activity in this 

 cause brought about his death, as he was shot 

 in the back by a poacher during the afternoon of 

 February 24, 1909, for which Allen Lagrue, 

 his murderer, is now serving a life sentence in the 

 penitentiary. 



I had known Mr. Jordan for a number of 

 years before his death and was much interested 



