CONTENTS 



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Introduction ix 



CHAPTER 



I. My Early Training with the Turkeys 3 



II. Range, Variation, and Name ... 12 



III. The Turkey Prehistoric 26 



IV. The Turkey Historic 39 



V. Breast Sponge — Shrewdness . . . 104 



VI. Social Relations — Nesting — The 



Young Birds Ill 



VII. Association of Sexes 119 



VIII. Its Enemies and Food 134 



IX. Habits of Association and Roosting . 152 



X. Guns I Have Used on Turkey ... 163 



XI. Learning Turkey Language : Why Does 



the Gobbler Gobble 170 



XII. On Callers and Calling 181 



XIII. Calling Up the Lovelorn Gobbler . . 198 



XIV. The Indifferent Young Gobbler . . 213 

 XV. Hunting Turkey with a Dog ... 218 



XVI. The Secret of Cooking the Turkey . 233 



XVH. Camera Hunting for Turkeys . . . 238 



V 



