flushed a large wild turkey, which flew away toward Mount 
Holyoke. This was the last occasion of a Wild Turkey 
having been seen that has come to my personal notice. . . . ” 
Unsatisfactory as this bit of testimony is, there is perhaps 
more than an even chance that one or two old and wary 
birds lingered in this favorite haunt a decade after Mr. 
Morris' last recorded capture, for, as he says, it was then 
believed that “others were still there," and the country was 
fairly wild in those days. 
Specimens Extant. 
Common as was the Wild Turkey a century ago, but few 
New England specimens have been preserved. In the Pea¬ 
body Museum at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 
is a mounted bird, killed in 1847 on Mt. Tom, Massachusetts. 
It was received with a collection of mounted birds, made by 
W. D. Whitney of Northampton. 
There is also a fine cock bird, mounted, in the Amherst 
College Museum, at Amherst, Mass. It was killed on Mt. 
Tom and is stated (Sikes, A. C., Forest and Stream, 1889, 
vol. 33, p. 167) to have been the last wild bird taken in 
that locality. 
In the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
are four Wild Turkey skins, bearing the printed label, 
“Massachusetts" or ‘‘Eastern Massachusetts, Louis Agas¬ 
siz." In manuscript on each label are the words, “Boston 
Market," and on one is the date 1847. These birds were 
doubtless obtained by Professor Agassiz in the Boston Mar¬ 
ket some years before the founding of the Museum, but 
whether or not they actually came from Massachusetts is 
questionable. 
In response to an inquiry, Dr. H. C. Oberholser, of the 
U. S. National Museum, tells me that there are no New 
England Wild Turkeys in the collections at Washington, so 
that those just mentioned appear to be the only New Eng¬ 
land specimens extant. 
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