The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting

Language: en

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV THE TURKEY HISTORIC HAVING disposed of such records as we have of the extinct ancestors of the American turkeys -- the so-to-speak meleagrine records -- we can now pass to what is, comparatively speaking, the modern history of these famous birds, although some of this history is already several centuries old. We have seen in the foregoing chapter that all…