Identifier: wildturkeyitshu00mcil (find matches)
Title: The wild turkey and its hunting
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McIlhenny, Edward Avery, 1872-1949 Jordan, Charles L., d. 1909 Shufeldt, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1850-1934
Subjects: Turkeys
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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cies of extinct Meleagridae which he had described. 2Marsh, 0. C. (Title on page 120.) Meleagris antiqua. Amer.Journ. Sci., ser. 3, II, 1871, 126. From this I extract the followingdescription, to wit:— Meleagris antiquus, sp. nov.A large Gallinaceous Bird, approaching in size the wild Turkey, andprobably belonging to the same group, was a contemporary of the Oreo-don and its associates during the formation of the Miocene lake depositseast of the Rocky Mountains. The species is at present represented onlyby a few fragments of the skeleton, but among these is a distal end of aright humerus, with the characteristic portions all preserved. The speci-men agrees in its main features with the humerus of Meleagris gallopavoLinn., the most noticeable points of difference being the absence in thefossil species of the broad longitudinal ridge on the inner surface of thedistal end, opposite the radial condyle, and the abrupt termination of theulnar condyle at its outer, superior border. Plate I
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Types: M. antiqua; M. celer. MarshFig. i. Anconal aspect of the distal extremity of the right humerus of Meleagrisantiquus of Marsh. Fig. 2. Palmar aspect of the same specimen as shown in Fig. 1.Fig. 3. Anterior aspect of the proximal moiety of the left tarsometatarsus of Meleagrisceler of Marsh. Fig. 4. Posterior aspect of the same fragment of bone shown in Fig. 3.Fig. 5. Outer aspect of the same fragment of bone shown in Figs. 3 and 4. All figuresnatural size. Reproduced from photographs made direct from the specimens by Dr. R.W. Shufeldt. THE TURKEY PREHISTORIC 31 It will be noted, then, that Meleagris antiquaof Marsh is practically represented by the imper-fect distal extremity of a right humerus; and thatMeleagris celer of the same paleontologist fromthe Pleistocene of New Jersey is said to be repre-sented by the bones enumerated in a foregoingfootnote. In this connection let it be borne inmind that, while I found fossil specimens ofMeleagris g, silvestris in the bone caves of Te

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