definite records. Williamson, in his “History of Maine” 
(1832, vol. 1, p. 150), makes the indefinite statement that 
“a few, however, have been shot in the western part of this 
state.” Partly on this authority, it may be, Audubon 
(Ornithological Biography, 1849, vol. 5, p. 559) wrote 
that “some of these valuable birds are still found in the 
states of New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine.” 
On this slender evidence the Wild Turkey retained its place 
in the Maine list until 1881, when Dr. Charles W. Townsend 
recorded (Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, 1881, vol. 6, p. 60) his 
discovery of a tarsal bone with the spur intact from an 
Indian shellheap on the east side of Mt. Desert Island. The 
origin of this bone will never be known, but it is safe to 
assume that it indicates the former presence of the bird at 
no very great distance, perhaps on the neighboring main¬ 
land; yet it seems unlikely that this region was well 
suited to the needs of the Turkey. As a bit of negative 
evidence, suggestive of the scarcity of Turkeys on the 
Maine coast, Jeffries Wyman, (Amer. Nat., 1868, vol. 1, 
p. 561) in his exploration of the shell-heaps at Frenchman’s 
Bay and Crouch’s Cove, Mt. Desert, and on Goose Island, 
Casco Bay, did not find Turkey bones, though he records 
them from Ipswich and Cotuit Point, Massachusetts, and 
they have been discovered on Treadwell’s Island (Robinson, 
Proc. Essex Inst., 1882, vol. 14, p. 161). Nor were any 
Turkey bones identified by Loomis and Young in their 
extensive explorations of the shell-heaps at Harpswell, 
Calf Island, Seward Island, Winter Harbor and Sawyer’s 
Island on the southern coast of Maine (Amer. Jour. Sci., 
1912, ser. 4, vol. 34, p.17). 
The Indians, as we know from the early accounts, made 
frequent journeys along shore and freely visited the outer 
islands of these coasts. 
In the town of Cushing, St. George’s River, Maine, there 
are a Turkey Point and a Turkey Cove, place-names that 
may imply the former presence of these birds near Penob¬ 
scot Bay. 
New Hampshire: The record for New Hampshire is 
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