64 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



Europe, we have obtained our domestic one. 

 The wild turkey has been frequently tamed, and 

 his offspring is of a large size." (p. 126.) x 



Nearly a quarter of a century after Clinton's 

 article appeared, the anatomy of the wild turkey 

 began to attract some attention. Among the 

 first articles to appear on this part of the sub- 

 ject was one by the late Sir Richard Owen, who, 

 apparently taking the similarity of the vernac- 

 ular names into account, made anatomical 

 comparisons of the organs of smell in the tur- 

 key and the turkey buzzard. Naturally, he 

 found them very different, — quite as different, 

 perhaps, as are the olfactory organs of an owl 

 and an ostrich, which I, for one, would not under- 

 take to make a comparison of for publication, 

 simply for the fact that in both these birds their 

 vernacular name begins with the letter o. 2 



Even twenty years after this paper appeared 

 there were those who still entertained doubts 

 as to the origin of the domesticated turkeys, and 

 believed that they had nothing to do with the 



'Clinton, De Witt. Trans. Lit. and Philos. Soc, New York, 1, 1815, 

 pp. 21-184. Note S. pp. 125-128. 



2 0wen, R. P. Z. S. V. 1837, pp. 34, 35. 



