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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the manner described in the beginningof this article, as the Turkeys, afterentering the pen and eating the cornwould keep looking upward for someopening above their heads and never dis-cover the trench by which they had en-tered. Another favorite way of getting aturkey dinner was by using a turkey call,which consisted of a sort of a hollowtube (preferably the hollow wing boneof another turkey). The hunter con-cealed himself, and by placing one endof the tube in the hollow of the looselyclasped hands and sucking on the otherend, made a noise much like that of aTurkey. If the scheme succeeded, someold gobbler soon answered, and ap-proached the supposed turkey. I re-member reading an entertaining accountof a famous turkey-hunter who, havingfound where a magnificent gobblerranged, started forth with his turkeycall. He hid behind a log and called,soon an answer came clear and certainfrom across the woods. The huntercrept from ambush to ambush, callingfrom time to time. The gobbler also 170
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105 V. ILD TURKEY.(Meleagris gallopavo.)1-5 Life-size. Copyrighted 1900, l.yA. W..Mumford, Chicago. I came, his call sounding nearer andnearer. At last it was well within rangeand the hunter cautiously peered frombehind his covert, all a tremble with ex-citement, his eyes dancing with ex-pectancy. He gazed into the expectantface of another famous turkey-hunter,peeking from behind a log. Now, nodoubt, one of his most cheerful memoriesis of the joke he had on the other fellow. As has been said, the habits of theWild Turkey are almost identical withthose of the domestic turkey. The birdsgo about in flocks, sometimes in openplaces, sometimes in deeper forests,feeding on mast and insects. One maleis usually found in company with sev-eral females. In the spring the femalessteal away and make their nests, wherethey lay from ten to fourteen eggs.They keep the nests hidden from themale who, if he finds them, will proceedto break up house-keeping at once. It was practical, unimaginative BenFran

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