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POtfLTRY, TURKEYS 
but little from the foregoing. There is more white in the tail feathers 
tod tail coverts, tod .like the Honduras turkey, it breeds freely with our 
wild or domestic turkey. 
Chested Turkey. 
IV. Bronzed-blaok Turkey. 
This is the largest as it is the best of the domestic turkeys, and was 
Undoubtedly produced by a cross of the wild male upon our common' 
turkey, impressed and fixed by careful breeding and selection, until they 
will weigh with the best specimens of the wild breed, sometimes attaining 
a weight of over forty pounds each. The general average, however, is 
about thirty pounds for mature, well fattened birds, while hens will gw 
