96 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



doing it constitutes a departure from what I 

 have just stated above in regard to the nests of 

 Turkeys. 



This photograph was kindly furnished me by 

 my friend Mr. F. Stephens of the Society of Nat- 

 ural History of San Diego, California, with per- 

 mission to use it in the present connection. It 

 has not to my knowledge been published before, 

 though the existence of the negative from which 

 it was printed has been made known to ornitholo- 

 gists by Major Bendire, who says, in his account 

 of the "Mexican Turkey" in his Life Histories of 

 North American Birds (loc. cit. p. 118): "That 

 well-known ornithologist and collector, Mr. F. 

 Stephens, took a probably incomplete set of 

 nine fresh eggs of this species, on June 15th, 1884. 

 He writes me: 'I was encamped about five miles 

 south of Craterville, on the east side of the Santa 

 Rita Mountains in Arizona; the nest was shown 

 to my assistant by a charcoal burner. On his 

 approach to it the bird ran off or flew before he 

 got within good range. He did not disturb it 

 but came to camp, and in the afternoon we both 

 went, and I took my little camera along and 



