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 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 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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