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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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s now become rare or extirpated in the more settled portions ofits range and is not found north of Pennsylvania. Throughout its wide range, the Wild Turkey presents some varia-tions in color, the extremes of which are shown by the Eastern WildTurkey and the Mexican Wild Turkey. These birds differ chiefly in thecolor of the tips of the tail-feathers and upper tail-coverts, which in theeastern bird are chestnut, and in the Mexican bird, whitish. Singularly enough, our barnyard Turkey is descended from theMexican bird, which the Spaniards found among the Aztecs in a state ofdomestication. It was introduced from Mexico into Europe, where ithad become well established in 1530, and from Europe was brought bythe colonists to eastern North America. Although the domesticated bird will readily cross with the wild one,no extensive effort has been made to domesticate the latter, and the in-habitants of our barnyard still show the whitish-tipped tail and tail-coverts of their Mexican ancestors. 16
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FLORIDA GREAT BLUE HERON Background by Bruce Horsfall. Birds by H. C. Denslow. 6. FLORIDA GREAT BLUE HERON THE Great Blue Heron, often miscalled Crane, is distributedthroughout North America. On the humid northwest coast itis darker than in eastern North America; in the arid GreatBasin region it is paler; and the Florida form shown here, known asWards Heron, is somewhat larger than the others. Herons are more aqautic than Cranes and feed largely on fish. Inthe Eastern States they invariably nest in trees, but in the West theyoften nest among the reeds like Coots. Young Herons are born in amore or less naked condition and are reared in the nest; ( nines arehatched with a downy covering and can run about shortly after hatch-ing. Herons fly with a fold in the neck, but Cranes hold the neckoutstretched. On the ground the Heron is a rather homely object, with his lankyform and long legs and neck, but in flight, his neck folded, the greatwings, slowly flapping, bear him on his stately way.

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