. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . es, and is one of the characteristic marks of thedomestic bird. I found this species very abundant uponthe highlands in southern New Mexico near the bordersof Arizona, and met with them in flocks of considerablesize. They had all the habits of the Eastern bird, andwere wary and difficult to approach. It was late in theautumn and the pifion nuts were abundant, and the birdskept closely to the groves of the trees which werecovered with these nuts, and apparently fed exclusivelyupon
. The gallinaceous game birds of North America, including the partridges, grouse, ptarmigan, and wild turkeys .. . es, and is one of the characteristic marks of thedomestic bird. I found this species very abundant uponthe highlands in southern New Mexico near the bordersof Arizona, and met with them in flocks of considerablesize. They had all the habits of the Eastern bird, andwere wary and difficult to approach. It was late in theautumn and the pifion nuts were abundant, and the birdskept closely to the groves of the trees which werecovered with these nuts, and apparently fed exclusivelyupon them. Their flesh was so highly scented by thisfood that, when the Turkeys were over the fire, they per-fumed the camp with a most appetizing odor, and Iknow no better dish than a roasted Mexican Turkeythat has been fed on pinon nuts. About three milesfrom one of our camps was a place where the Turkeyswere in the habit of roosting, and we visited the spotseveral times. On the first occasion I left camp abouthalf an hour before sundown, and came near the roost-ing place just at dark. The Turkeys had selected a. 4<- .Mexican Turkey. MEXICAN TURKEY. 183 grove of lofty pines, the first branches of which were toohigh for any missile to reach and do execution upon solarge a bird, save a bullet from a rifle. As my com-panion and myself quietly sat upon the ground a quarterof a mile away, waiting for the daylight to leave the sky,we heard the Turkeys flying into the trees, and gobblingat intervals as they settled themselves for the darkness spread her veil around us, and all soundsfrom the roost ceased, and we commenced cautiously todraw near our objective point. Soon we could distinguish the trees in which we knewthe birds were, but the branches were so far from theground that at first nothing could be seen that re-sembled a Turkey. Gradually we drew near until westood beneath the overspreading limbs and close to thetrunk of the tree each had selected. No movement orsoun
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