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average measurements of these eggs is 69 by 49 

 millimetres. The largest measures 70.5 by 49, 

 the smallest 67 by 48 millimetres. 



"The type specimen (No. 15573, U. S. National 

 Museum collection, PL 3, Fig. 15) is one of the 

 set referred to above" (loc. cit. p. 119). 



This set of three eggs I have personally studied; 

 they are of M. g. merriami, and I find them to 

 agree exactly with Captain Bendire's description 

 just quoted. 1 



In the Ralph Collection (U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 No. 27232; orig. No. 10/6) I examined six (6) 

 eggs of M. g. intermedia. They are of a pale 

 ground color, all being uniformly speckled over 

 with minute dots of lightish brown. These eggs 

 are rather large for turkey eggs. They were 

 collected at Brownsville, Texas, May 26, 1894. 



Another set of M. g. intermedia collected by 

 F. B. Armstrong (No. 25765, coll. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus.) are practically unspotted, and such spots 

 as are to be found are very faint, both the mi- 

 nute and the somewhat large ones. 



'Some of the English books contain descriptions of the eggs of our 

 wild turkeys, as for example "A Handbook to the Game-birds." By 

 W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. (Lloyd's Nat. Hist.) London, 1897, pp. 103-111. 



