HONDURAS TURKEY . — Meleagris Ocellata . 
The splendid Honduras Turkey is even a more magnificent bird than t lie- 
preceding species. It is found, as its name imports, in the wooded districts of 
Honduras and Yucatan. 
Two specimens of this splendid bird, a male and female, were brought to the 
Zoological Gardens ; and I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. T. W. Wood, the 
artist of the accompanying illustration, for the following short account of its 
habits in a state of captivity, I being at the time unable through ill health to 
visit the gardens. “In the spring, the male became highly excited, and stalked 
about with his tail spread, wings drooping, and all his feathers puffed up, looking 
as if he would burst with pride. At such a time his head was thrown back so 
far and his breast-feathers projecting so far that he could not observe the ground 
beneath him, and consequently he often stepped into the water, much to his 
annoyance and the visitor s amusement.” 
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