94 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



In Dr. Ralph's collection (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 

 27080) eggs of M . g. intermedia are short, with the 

 large and fine dots of a pale orange yellow, I ex- 

 amined a number of eggs and sets of eggs of M . 

 g. osceola, or Florida turkey. In No. 25787 the 

 eggs are short and broad, the ground color being 

 pale whitish, slightly tinged with brown. Some 

 of the spots on these eggs are unusually large, 

 in a few places, three or four running together, 

 or are more or less confluent; others are isolated 

 and of medium size; many are minute, all being 

 of an earth brown, varying in shades. In the 

 case of No. 25787 of this set, the dark-brown 

 spots are more or less of a size and fewer in 

 number; while one of them (No. 25787) is exactly 

 like the egg of Plate VI, Fig. 22 ; finally, there is a 

 pale one (No. 25787) with, fine spots, few in num- 

 ber in middle third, very numerous at the ends. 

 There are scattered large spots of a dark brown, 

 the surface of each of which latter are raised with 

 a kind of incrustation. Another egg (No. 27869) 

 in the same tray (M . g. osceola) is small, pointed ; 

 pale ground color with very fine spots of light 

 brown (coll. W. L. Ralph). Still another in 



