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and buffalo, they have been compelled to yield to $ 
destructive ingenuity of the white settlers, ° ttC , 
wantonly exercised, and seek refuge in the rem oW? 
parts of the interior. Although they relinquish tb*£ 
native soil with slow and reluctant steps, yet sue' 1 'j 
the rapidity with which settlements are extended a " 
condensed over the surface of this country, that ’’ 
may anticipate a day, at no distant period, when 1,1 
hunter will seek the wild turkey in vain. 
We have neglected no means of obtaining informal'* 1 ' 
from various parts of the Union, relative to this i 
resting bird ; and having been assisted by the zeal a" 
politeness of several individuals, who, in diffe''' 1 ,. 
degrees, have contributed to our stock of know’k‘!£ 
on this subject, we return them our best thanks. .V 
have particular satistaction in acknowledging the ki'' 
ness of Mr John J, Audubon, from whom wc 
received a copious narrative, containing a consider, •. 
portion of the valuable notes collected by him, on 
bird, during twenty years that he has been engaged 
studying ornithology, in the only book free from 
and contradiction, the great book of nature. ‘ \. 
observations, principally made in Kentucky and 
siaua, proved the more interesting, as we had rece' v ‘ v 
no information from those states : we have in com, 
quence, been enabled to enrich the present article , 
several new details of the manners and habits of tu 
wild turkey. 
The wooded parts of Arkansaw, Louisiana, Tenoe* s . e S 
and Alabama ; the unsettled portions of the state* 
Ohio, Kentucky Indiana, and Illinois : the vast exp^'j 
of territory northwest of these states, on the Missis*'!' ,, 
and Missouri, as far as the forests extend, are 
abundantly supplied, than any other parts of the n"" a 
with this valuable game, which forms an important p; ' 
of the subsistence of the hunter and traveller ip , p 
wilderness. It is not probable that the range of ,,, 
bird extends to, or beyond, the Rocky Mountains i 
Mandan Indians, who a few years ago visited the 
ot Washington, considered the turkey one of the gi'C 1 
