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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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e most abundant birds of the meadows) use the marshes as dor-mitories, coming to them in incalculable numbers in the evening tosleep, and leaving them early the following morning to radiate toevery point of the compass. During the day, and as the birds gatherfor their evening flight, they may be seen perching in long lines on road-side telegraph lines. In August the marshes are as remarkable for their flowers as fortheir birds. The great rose mallow is doubtless the most beautiful,:t- it is also one of the most abundant species, acres sometimes beingpink with the bell-shaped flowers. There are also brilliant cardinalflowers, sagittaria, pickerel weed, jewel flowers, all of which are shownin the group, and many other species. The studies for this group were made about one mile south of LittleFerry, X. J. The view shown is toward the west. With the so-called march of civilization, all this wealth of birdand plant life is bound to disappear, to be replaced by railways, facteand dock-. 13
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5. THE WILD TURKEY IN THE MOUNTAINS OFWEST VIRGINIA THE Wild Turkey, in spite of its name, is distinctly an Americanbird, which formerly ranged throughout the wooded portion ofthe eastern United States, from southern Maine and south-western Ontario, south to Florida and southwest to New Mexico andArizona, whence it extends southward onto the Mexican tableland. It has 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 Eur

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