. American poultry world . variety lose much of their brilliancy whenhoused. I know of one instance where a Half-Wild henof very good plumage was kept housed with other fowls ina house not particularly clean or well ventilated for a year,and when I saw her at the end of that time I could notbelieve she was the same hen, she was dingy, much lightercolored and had not a trace of the beautiful bronze leftin her plumage. Another reason I think, for this beautyof plumage is the state of the turkeys health. Wild tur-keys are hardier than domesticated varieties, their man-ner of living for generation
. American poultry world . variety lose much of their brilliancy whenhoused. I know of one instance where a Half-Wild henof very good plumage was kept housed with other fowls ina house not particularly clean or well ventilated for a year,and when I saw her at the end of that time I could notbelieve she was the same hen, she was dingy, much lightercolored and had not a trace of the beautiful bronze leftin her plumage. Another reason I think, for this beautyof plumage is the state of the turkeys health. Wild tur-keys are hardier than domesticated varieties, their man-ner of living for generations has strengthened them andthis has added beauty to their plumage. Wild turkeys prefer timber or woodland much more thanopen fields, this is probably due to their efforts to keep outof view of man. Nature has provided the Wild birds ofthis section (Maryland) with a brownish general appear-ance so that when in the woods they are very hard to seeany distance as the brown effect is almost identical with(Continued on page 49). Miss Bertha M. Tyson, Rising Sun, Md. and some feathers from her Wild Turkeys. The picturedoes not do justice to the beauty of these feathers as it is impossible to reproduce the ever changingtints and metallic luster. The wonderfully shaded bronze and play of colors simply shows white orlight colored in a photo.—Ed. 21
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