76 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



In this article Mr. Nelson names M. g. mer- 

 riami and gives full descriptions of the adult 

 male and female in winter plumage. 



What has thus far been presented above on the 

 first discovery of the American wild turkeys, 

 their natural history in the New World, their 

 introduction into Spain, England, France, and 

 elsewhere, is practically all we have on this part 

 of our subject up to date. What I have given 

 is from the very best ornithological and other 

 authorities. Domesticated turkeys are now 

 found in nearly all parts of the world, while in 

 only a very few instances has any record been 

 kept of the different times of their introduction. 

 With the view of accumulating such data, one 

 would have to search the histories of all the 

 countries of all the civilized and semi-civilized 

 peoples of the world, which would be the labor of 

 almost a man's entire lifetime, and in only too 

 many instances his search would be in vain, for 

 the several records of the times of introducing 

 these birds were not made. 



Apart from the description of the wild turkeys, 

 there is still a very large literature devoted to the 



