. Bird lore . A STUDY IN BIRD FLIGHTCopyright by E. Niebergall Tame Wild Turkeys By WILLIAM T. DAVIS With photographs by the author DOWN on the Florida coast, among the Ten Thousand Islands, in theGulf of Mexico, there is a small hamlet known as Everglade. Anarrow river ebbs and flows with the tide before the few houses onits banks, and the place has the appearance of being on the mainland. As amatter of fact, however, it is on an island; for the river has a back entrance,so to speak, and there is another lead out to the Gulf. Our mission to Ever-glade, in April, 1912, was the collecting of in
. Bird lore . A STUDY IN BIRD FLIGHTCopyright by E. Niebergall Tame Wild Turkeys By WILLIAM T. DAVIS With photographs by the author DOWN on the Florida coast, among the Ten Thousand Islands, in theGulf of Mexico, there is a small hamlet known as Everglade. Anarrow river ebbs and flows with the tide before the few houses onits banks, and the place has the appearance of being on the mainland. As amatter of fact, however, it is on an island; for the river has a back entrance,so to speak, and there is another lead out to the Gulf. Our mission to Ever-glade, in April, 1912, was the collecting of insects, and so daily we rambledabout the garden or in the near-by salt meadows. Also, strolling about this open area and among the orange trees were threetame Wild Turkeys—two gobblers and a hen. They, too, were entomologists,and interested in grasshoppers. With the hen we had Httle to do, for she S ^WT. WILD TURKEY AN ORANGE GROVE generally kept at a respectable distance; but the young gobblers had no thoughtof running away, and all that was necessary was to wave the insect net atthem, or make some demonstration by way of a challenge, when with a fewshort chucks the Turkeys closed in, and the net handle was then useful as aweapon of defence. It was one of our amusements to get the Turkeys muchexcited, and then run along a path at top speed, with the long-legged gobblersvery mad and in hot pursuit. Then we would pop into one of the out-build- (342) Tame Wild Turkeys 343 ings, slam the door, and listen to the comments of the ireful Turkeys a while they would depart, or we would come out and charge them withthe insect net. They, however, would go only just far enough away to be gave us a new conception of the usually timid Wild Turkeys, to see themthus about the place, and more than tame. It was Turkey Gobblers, andnot gobble-uns, that would catch us if we didnt wa
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