WILD TURKEY. 
1G3 
but graduated 
rn;,i inkers are also mi 
as in the male. The lateral 
Hi , '•“tuers are also much more uniform with the 
.pie one, and of course with the hack, the three outer 
°« each side being pearl gray at tip. This latter 
tH;t tl ' r , however, we should rather attribute to aye 
, uywcvci, If Vj (5UUU.1W AU.UUV* ~ v,., 
we had not good reasou to believe that our 
Vie 
is a perfectly adult bird 
. ~ ■= a 
Hi'; 1 first sight, the Zenaida dove might perhaps be 
..'Stakp- *■ -• A -~ tl - -f s' 1 - 1 — 2 ~ 
ken for 'the common turtle dove, Columba caru- 
Ssn 
’sis. 
, —•i aud marginata of authors,) having the same 
4i.! colour and several common markings ; but, to 
no other differential character, the short even 
I uu outer UlUCltJUtUU UU(M««VV*, auviv V, » v.*- 
> Composed of but twelve feathers, ail rounded, the 
Hep i.i • . * *ti - ... v 
r'Y bluish gray at tip, will at once distinguish it from 
'atte r , which belongs to a different group, having 
th 
4 - ta tt lo'no- cuneiform, “and (what is found in no other 
„ o v i 1 ^ 4 .: ik„ 
Species, not. even its close relation, the 
'wf U ? er pigeon) composed of fourteen tapering and 
ill, e fathers, the two middle remarkably so, and the 
|J'‘ iv d Pure white at tip. If any other distinction should 
fioonndariea of our 
11(4 r l *» nice mo “ “*V . 
U„ .;*luired, the white tips of the secondaries ot our 
t^i' 1 ^ecies will afford a good one, as well as the outer 
'‘father, the exterior web of which is blue gray, 
■ 'fed, as well as the others, by the black band ; 
Vn iu t!le C- carolinensis it is entirely pure white, 
J *ack hand being confined to the inner web. 
* 1 . 
GENUS XVIII . — MliLEAGRIS, Linnaeus. 
XvLKAGRIS GJLLOPJrO, LINNjKUS. WILD TUBKET. 
Bonaparte, plate ix. male and female* 
tli,. " E dative country of the wild turkey extends from 
k>i ttlM-t b-western territory of the United States to the 
V . Us of Panama, south of which it is not to be found, 
"Ithstaaiinir the statements of authors, who have 
© r\ . ■ l nml tlio Tinw 
the curassovv for it. 
V for 
■merly 
In Canada, and the now 
tes, wild turkeys 
cry abundant ; hut, like the Indian 
i ' tAlc uura>au »» **■. — — - , 
'v„„ ■( peopled parts of the United States, wild turkeys 
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