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WILD TURKEY. 
ME LEA GRIS GALLOPAVO. 
Plate IX. Male and Female. 
Meleagris gallopavo , 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, 
dim. Orn. VI, Index, p. xvii. Stephens, Cont. of Shaw’s, Zool. XI, Parti, p. 156, 
PI. 8. Ranzani, Elem. di Zool. Ill, Part I, p. 154. 
Meleagris sylvestris, Vie ill. Nouv. Diet, d'Hist. Nat. IX, p. 447. 
Gallopavo , Albrovanbi, Orn. II, p. 35, fig. on p. 39, domestic variety, male; fig. on 
p. 40, Id. female. Willugby, Orn. p. 113, PI. 27, fig. 4, dom. var. male. John¬ 
ston, Thealrum Universale de Avibus, p. 55, PI. 24, fig. 1, dom. var. male; fig. 2, 
Id. female. Briss. Av. I, p. 158, PI. 16, dom. var. male. 
Gallus indicus, Welseher Han , Johnston, Th. Av. p. 83, PI. 29, fig. 1, dom. var. male. 
Gallopavo sylvestris Novae Anglix, a New-England Wild Turkey , Ray, Syn. p. 51, Sp. 3. 
Gallopavo sylvestris, Catesby, Carolina , I, App. p. xliv. 
Meleagris americanus. the Wild Turkey , Bartr. Trav. p. 290. 
Gallo Pavo , Gallo Pavone volgarmente Polio d'India; Storia degli Uceelli , II, PI. 222, 
dom. crested var. male; PI. 223, dom. white, black-spotted var. young; PI. 224, 
dom. white, yellowish-spotted var. young; PI. 225, dom. black var. young; PI. 226, 
dom. black, white-spotted var. young. 
Coe. d'Inde, Belon, Histoire de la Nature des Oiseaux, p. 248, with fig. dom. var. male. 
Hindon, 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, Tabl. 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. Abridg. Ill, p. 590. 
Lawson, Carolina , p. 149. Penn. Phil. Trans. LXXI, p. 67. Aret. Zool. Sp. 178. 
American Turkey , Lath. Syn. II, Part II, p. 676, Sp. 1. 
Domestic Turkey , Penn. Brit. Zool. I, Sp. 97. 
The native country of the Wild Turkey extends from the North¬ 
western territory of the United States to the isthmus of Panama, 
south of which it is not to be found, notwithstanding the statements 
