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WILD TURKEY. 
stock of knowledge on this subject, we return them our best 
thanks. We have particular satisfaction in acknowledging the 
kindness of Mr John J. Audubon, from whom we have re- 
ceived a copious narrative, containing a considerable portion 
of the valuable notes collected by him, on this bird, during 
twenty years that he has been engaged in studying ornitholo- 
gy, in the only book free from error and contradiction, the 
great book of nature. His observations, principally made in 
Kentucky and Louisiana, proved the more interesting, as we 
had received no information from those states ; we have, in 
consequence, been enabled to enrich the present article with 
several new details of the manners and habits of the wild 
turkey. 
The wooded parts of Arkansaw, Louisiana, Tennessee, and 
Alabama ; the unsettled portions of the states of Ohio, Ken- 
tucky, Indiana, and Illinois ; the vast expanse of territory 
northwest of these states, on the Mississippi and Missouri, as 
far as the forests extend, are more abundantly supplied than 
any other parts of the Union with this valuable game, which 
forms an important part of the subsistence of the hunter and 
traveller in the wilderness. It is not probable that the range 
of this bird extends to, or beyond, the Rocky Mountains ; the 
Mandan Indians, who, a few years ago, visited the city of 
Washington, considered the turkey one of the greatest curio- 
sities they had seen, and prepared a skin of one, to carry 
home for exhibition. 
The wild turkey is not very plenty in Florida, Georgia, 
and the Carolinas ; is still less frequently found in the western 
parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania ; and is extremely rare, if 
indeed it exists at all, in the remaining northern and eastern 
parts of the United States ; in New England, it even appears 
to have been already destroyed one hundred and fifty years 
back. I am, however, credibly informed, that wild turkeys are 
yet to be found in the mountainous districts of Sussex county, 
New Jersey. The most eastern part of Pennsylvania now in- 
habited by them, appears to be Lancaster county ; and they 
