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قراءة كتاب The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting
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The grandest bird of the American continent
THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING
BY
EDWARD A. McILHENNY
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 |
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