Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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It is this race, with white-tipped upper tail-coverts, which was first introduced into Europe, where it had become established as early as 1530. 310b. M. g. osceola Scott. FLORIDA WILD TURKEY.-Resembles M. gallopavo, but is smaller, and the primaries, instead of being regularly and widely barred with white, as in that bird , have much smaller, broken white markings. Weight, & 12-22 lbs.; 9 475-9 lbs. (Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, p. 115).

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