Illustrated from Photographs

GARDEN CITYNEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1914

Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914, by
The Outdoor World Publishing Company

Copyright, 1914, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Introduction]ix
CHAPTER
I.[My Early Training with the Turkeys]3
II.[Range, Variation, and Name]12
III.[The Turkey Prehistoric]26
IV.[The Turkey Historic]39
V.[Breast Sponge—Shrewdness]104
VI.[Social Relations—Nesting—The Young Birds]111
VII.[Association of Sexes]119
VIII.[Its Enemies and Food]134
IX.[Habits of Association and Roosting]152
X.[Guns I Have Used on Turkeys]163
XI.[Learning Turkey Language—Why Does the Gobbler Gobble]170
XII.[On Callers and Calling]181
XIII.[Calling Up the Lovelorn Gobbler]198
XIV.[The Indifferent Young Gobbler]213
XV.[Hunting Turkey with a Dog]218
XVI.[The Secret of Cooking the Turkey]233
XVII.[Camera Hunting for Turkeys]238