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WILD TURKEY — MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO. 
Plate IX. Male and Female. 
Meleagris gaUopavo, Linn. Syst. i. p. 268. sp. 1. Gmel. Syst. i. p. 732, sp. 1. 
Lath. Ind. p. 618, sp. 1. Temm. Hist Nat des Pig. et Gall. Index, iii. p. 
676. Wilson, Am. Orn. vi. Index, p. xvli. Stephens, Cont, of Shaw's Zool. 
xi. Part i. p. 156, pi. 8. Ranzani, Elem. di Zool. iii. Part i. p. 154. — Melea- 
gris sylvestris, Vieill. Nouv. Diet d'Hist. Nat ix. p. 447. — Gallopavo, Aldro- 
vandi, Orn. ii. p. 35, fig. on p. 39, domestic variety, male ; fig. on p. 40, Id. 
female. Willughhy, Orn. p. 113, pi. 27, fig. 4, dom. var. male. Johnston, 
Theatrum Universale de Avihus, p. 55, pi. 24, fig. 1, dom. var. male ; fig. 2, 
Id. female. Briss. Av. i. p. 158, pi. 16. dom. var. male, — Gallus Indians, 
Welscher Han, Johnston, Th. Av. p. 83, pi. 29, fig. 1, dom. var. male. — Gallo- 
pavo sylvestris Novae- Angliae, a New England wild turkey, Ray, Syn. p. 51, sp. 
3. — Gallopavo sylvestris, Cateshy, Carolina, i. App. p. xliv. — Meleagris Ameri- 
canus, the wild turkey, Bartr. Trav. p. 290.— GaUo Pavo, Gallo Pavone volgar- 
mente Polio dTndia, Storia degli Uccelli, ii. pi. 222, dom. crested var. male ; pi. 
223, dom, white, black-spotted var. young ; pi. 224, dom. white, yellowish-spot- 
ted var. young ; pi. 225, dom. black, var. young ; pi. 226, dom. black, white 
spotted var. young. — Coc dTnde, Belon, Histoire de la Nature des Oiseaux, p. 
248, with fig. dom. var. male. — DIndon, Buff^. Ois. ii. p. 132, pi. 3. PI. Enl. 
97, dom. whitish, var. male. Temm. Hist. Nat. des Pig. et Gall. ii. p. 374. 
Gerardin, Tail. Elem. d' Orn. ii. p. 103, pi. 21, fig. 2. dom. var. male. — Turkie, 
Josselyn, Voyages to New England, p. 99. New England's Rarities, p. 8. — 
Wild turkey, Clayton, Virginia, Phil. Trans, xvii. p. 992. Id. Ahridg. iii. p. 
590. Lawson, Carolina, p. 149. Penn. Phil. Trans. Ixxi. p. 67. Arct. Zool. 
sp. 178. — American turkey. Lath. Syn, ii. Partii. p. 676, sp. 1. — Domestic tur- 
key, Penn. Brit. Zool. i. sp. 97. 
MELEAGRIS GALLOP AVO.—Li^ivSMVS.^ 
Meleagris gallopavo, Bonap. Synop. p. 123. — The wild turkey, Aud. m. pi. 1. fern, 
and young, p. vi. — Orn. Biog. i. pp. 1 and 33. — Gard. and Menag. of Zool. Soc. 
Birds, p. 209. 
The native country of the wild turkey extends from the 
north-western territory of the United States to the Isthmus of 
* The natural history of the turkey is so well and fully detailed by our au- 
thor, that almost nothing can be added, even from the later observations of 
Audubon. From the evidence that has been collected, there seems to be little 
