Note 2 — THE WILD TURKEY.
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The peculiarities in the structure of the plumage of different species of birds might, if duly attended to, prove of essential service to the systematic ornithologist, as conducing, along with other circumstances, to the elucidation of the natural affinities of birds. On this subject, I would refer the system-makers to the valuable observations of Mr Macgillivray in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for 1828.