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
EAN 4064066217488
Table of Contents
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 |
| FACING PAGE | |
| 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 |
INTRODUCTION