THE TURKEY. Meleagris gallopavo.-LINNEUs. PLATE I. MALE.-PLATE II. FEMALE AND YOUNG. Meleagris gallopavo, Linnæus.-The Turkey, Pennant, Philosophical Transactions, vol. lxxi. p. 67.-Le Dindon, Buffon-Temminck Histoire Naturelle des Pigeons et Gallinacés, ii. p. 375.-Meleagris fera, Vieillot, Gallerie des Oiseaux.-Wild Turkey, Bonaparte, Continuation of Wilson's N. American Ornithology, No. I. p. 79. Synopsis, p. 123. Audubon, Ornithological Biography, i. p. 1.— Domestic Turkey, Pennant, British Zoology. 8vo edit. p. 374.-Meleagris occidentalis, Bartram. THE Wild Turkey should have been the emblem of North America, and so thought Benjamin Franklin. The Turkey is the national bird, truly indigenous, and not found beyond the limits of that continent he is the herald of the morning, and around the log-house of the squatter, must convey associations similar to those produced by the crowing of the cock around the cottage of the European farmer. "I was awakened," says Bartram, " in the morning early, by the cheering converse of the wild turkey cocks saluting each other from the sun-brightened tops of the lofty cypress and magnolia. They begin at early dawn, and continue till sunrise. The |