182 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



one half inch thick, one side one eighth, the other 

 quite thin. The mortise is one and a half inches 

 deep. A piece of slate some four inches long by 

 half an inch wide is drawn across the thin edge of 

 this box in various positions, and one skilled in the 

 use of this call can obtain very good results. The 

 call most in use by the backwoods turkey hunters 

 in the Southern States, and one that causes the 

 death of more turkeys than all other call devices 

 put together, is simply the hollow wing bone from 

 the second joint of a hen turkey, with both ends 

 cut off to allow free passage of air. One end is held 

 with the lips in such a manner that the inside por- 

 tion of the lips covers the end of the bone. The 

 breath is then drawn in sharply, and when one 

 is skilled in its use the different call-notes of the 

 hen turkey can be produced perfectly. There are 

 several other devices much after this order, but 

 I have never found use for any of them; in fact 

 their defects prompted me to invent a call of 

 my own, which I prefer. First, get the smaller 

 bone from the wing of a wild hen turkey: the 

 radius of the forearm. Hallock says the larger 

 bone, but he is wrong. The bone should be thor- 



