The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting. Edward Avery McIlhenny

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       Edward Avery McIlhenny, Charles L. Jordan

      The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066217488

Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       CHAPTER I MY EARLY TRAINING WITH THE TURKEYS

       CHAPTER II RANGE, VARIATION, AND NAME

       CHAPTER III THE TURKEY PREHISTORIC

       CHAPTER IV THE TURKEY HISTORIC

       CHAPTER V BREAST SPONGE—SHREWDNESS

       CHAPTER VI SOCIAL RELATIONS—NESTING—THE YOUNG BIRDS

       CHAPTER VII ASSOCIATION OF SEXES

       CHAPTER VIII ITS ENEMIES AND FOOD

       CHAPTER IX HABITS OF ASSOCIATION AND ROOSTING

       CHAPTER X GUNS I HAVE USED ON TURKEYS

       CHAPTER XI LEARNING TURKEY LANGUAGE—WHY DOES THE GOBBLER GOBBLE

       CHAPTER XII ON CALLERS AND CALLING

       CHAPTER XIII CALLING UP THE LOVELORN GOBBLER

       CHAPTER XIV THE INDIFFERENT YOUNG GOBBLER

       CHAPTER XV HUNTING TURKEY WITH A DOG

       CHAPTER XVI THE SECRET OF COOKING THE TURKEY

       CHAPTER XVII CAMERA HUNTING FOR TURKEYS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The grandest bird of the American continent.	Frontispiece
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Plate I. Figs. 1 to 5. Types: M. antiqua; M. celer. Marsh	30
Plate II. Figs. 6 to 10. Views of the skulls of wild turkeys	45
Plate III. Fig. 11. Left lateral view of the skull of an old male wild turkey	60
Plate IV. Figs. 12 to 16. Views of the cranium and skull of the turkey	75
Plate V. Figs. 17 to 19. Views of the skull of wild turkeys, and skeleton of the left foot of a wild turkey	80
Plate VI. Figs. 20 to 23. Eggs of wild turkey	90
Plate VII. Fig. 24. Nest of a wild turkey in situ	102
Note the full chest of the gobbler on the left. This is the breast sponge	106
Nest located in thick brush on top of a ridge in Louisiana	112
Hen, wild turkey, and three young	116
The beginning of the strut	124
The chief of all his enemies is the "genus homo"	142
An ideal turkey country. They will go a long way to roost in trees growing in water	156
A hermit. It would take an expert turkey hunter to circumvent this bird	160
Big woods in Louisiana where the old gobblers roam at will. A delightful place in which to camp	174
Jordan's Turkey Call (cut in text)	183
I soon saw the old gobbler stealing slowly through the brush	190
"Cluck," "put," "put," there stands a gobbler, within twenty paces to the left	202
Suddenly there was a "Gil-obble-obble-obble," so near it made me jump	206
The soft, gentle quaver of the hen has no effect on the ear of the young gobbler	216

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