. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER Yll THE WILD TURKEY. MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO. On tlie topOf yon magnolia, the loud Turkeys voiceIs heralding the dawn: from tree to treeExtends the Makeuing watch-note far and wide,Till the whole woodlands echo with the cry. * DESCRIPTION. ADULT MALE. Bill shortish, robust, slightly arched, rather obtuse, the basecovered by a bare membrane; upper mandible with the dorsal THE WILD TURKEY. 119 outline arched, the sides convex, the edges overlapping, the tip
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds, and wild fowl of America . CHAPTER Yll THE WILD TURKEY. MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO. On tlie topOf yon magnolia, the loud Turkeys voiceIs heralding the dawn: from tree to treeExtends the Makeuing watch-note far and wide,Till the whole woodlands echo with the cry. * DESCRIPTION. ADULT MALE. Bill shortish, robust, slightly arched, rather obtuse, the basecovered by a bare membrane; upper mandible with the dorsal THE WILD TURKEY. 119 outline arched, the sides convex, the edges overlapping, the tipa little declinate; under mandible somewhat bulging towardsthe tip, the sides convex. Nostrils situated in the basal mem-brane, oblique, linear, covered by a cartilage. Head small, flattened above, with a conical pendulous, erec-tile caruncle on the forehead. Neck slender. Body l,ongish and strong; tarsus covered anteriorly with numer-ous transverse scutella, scaly on the sides, sciitellate behind;toes scutellate above, scabrous, papillar, and flat beneath ; hindtoe elevated, half the length of the lateral toes, which
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