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verv tiiickly. and quite iinifurmly, speckled all OA'er with more or less minute 
specks of dark brown. 
Xumber 4. collected by H. R. Caldwell (91.310) the locality being unrecord- 
ed (Coll. Lk S. X^at. Mus., no. 32407) measures 63x48. It is of a pale buffy- 
brown or pale cafe an lait color, quite thickly speckled all over with fine dots and 
specks of light brown. Some few of the specks are of noticeably larger size, and 
these are confined to the middle or apical thirds. Siieckling of the butt or big 
end, extremely hue, and the specks of lighter color. 
These eggs were selected by Or. Richmond on the i6th of April, 1912, and 
photograjihed by me four days thereafter. 
Referring to the Wild Turkey (M. g. sili'cstris) , llendire says {loc. cit., p. 
ti6) : "In shape, the eggs of the Wild Turkey are usually ovate, occasionally they 
are elongate ovate. The ground color varies from jiale creamy white to creamy 
bnfl’. They are more or less heavily marked with well-defined spots and dots of 
pale chocolate and reddish brown. In an occasional set these sjiots are pale lav- 
ender. Generally the markings are all small, ranging in size from a no. 6 shot to 
that of dust shot, but an exceptional set is sometimes heavily covered w’ith both 
spots and blotches of the size of buckshot, and even larger. The majority of eggs 
of this species in the L^. S. X"ati<mal Museum collection, and such as I have ex- 
amined elsewhere, resemble in coloration the figured type of d/. gallopa'i'o mexi- 
caiiiis, but average, as a rule, somewhat smaller in size." 
“I'lie average measurement of thirty-eight eggs in the U. S. XTtional Mu- 
seum collection is 61.5 by 46.5 millimeters. The largest eggs measure 68.5 by 46, 
the smallest 59 by 45 millimeters." 
At the close of his account of M. g. iiicxicaiius, llendire states that "The only 
eggs of this species in the Lk S. X'ational Museum collection, about whose iden- 
tity there can be no possible doubt, were collected on I'pper Lynx Creek, Arizona, 
In the spring of 1870, by Dr. E. Palmer, whose name is well known as one of the 
pioneer naturalists of th.at I'erritory." 
"The eggs are ovate in shape, their ground color is creamy white, and they 
are profusely dotted with fine spots of reddish brown, pretty evenly distributed 
over the entire egg. The average measurements of these eggs is 69 by 49 milli- 
meters. The largest measures 70.5 bv 49, the smallest 67 by 48 millimeters." 
"The type specimen (no. 15573 ' U. S. National Museum collection, pi. 3, 
fig. 15) is one of the set referred to above" iloc. cit., p. 119). 
'Phis set of three eggs I have personallv studied. They are of M. g. incr- 
riaiiii, and 1 find them to agree exactly with Captain Rendire's description just 
(I noted.'* 
In the Ralph Collection ( Lk S. Nat. i\Ius. no. 27232. orig. no. I ex- 
amined si.x eggs of 37 . g. iutemredia. Thev are of a pale ground color, all being 
uniformly speckled over with minute dots of lightish brown. These eggs are rath- 
er large for turkey eggs. They were collected at 1 Irownsville, Texas. Mav 26, 
1 8(j4. 
.knother set of A/, g. intermedia collected by F. Ik Armstrong (no. 25765. 
C'oll. Lk S. X’at. Mus.) are practically unspotted, and such s]rots as are to be found, 
aix' very faint, both the minute and the somewhat large ones. 
In Dr. Ralph's collection ! L. S. XMt. Mu.s. rio. 27080) eggs of M. g. inter- 
media are short, with the large and fine dots of a pale orange yelloza. I examined 
* Some of the Eiigflisli books contain descriptions of the eggs of our wild turkeys, as for example A 
Handbook to the (‘.ame-birds,’' by W. K. Ogilvie-Grant. (Lloyd's Nat. Hist. London. 1897. pn 103-111.) 
