of the Turkey. pi 
they wifli by riling from bough to bough. In a 
wild hate they get to the very fummit of the 
loftieh trees, even fo high as to be beyond the reach 
of the mufquet 
Gregarious. In the hate of nature they go in flocks even of 
five hundred f , feed much on the fmall red acorns, 
and grow fo fat in March that they cannot fly 
more than three or four . hundred yards, and are 
foon ran down by a horfeman. In the unfre- 
quented parts bordering on the Mfjifpi , they are 
fo tame as to be fliot with even a pihol 
Haunts. They frequent the great fwamps § of their 
native country, and leave them at fun-rifing to 
repair to the dry woods in fearch of acorns and 
berries ; and before fun- fet retire to the fwamps 
to roofh 
The flefh of the wild Turkey is faid to be fu~ 
perior in goodnefs to the tame, but redder. Eggs 
of the former have been taken from the neh, and 
hatched under tame Turkies. The young will 
Hill prove wild, perch feparate, yet mix and breed 
together in the feafon. The Indians fometimes ■ 
ufe the breed produced from the wild as decoy 
birds to feduee thofe in a hate of nature within, 
their reach ||. 
* Lawson, 4.5. 
f adair’s Amer. 360* * * § 
X lawson, 149. 
§ It is in the fwamps that the loftieft and moil: bulky trees are. The wet with 
which they are environed makes them a fecure retreat, 
| lawson, 149. 
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