 | William Charles L. Martin - 1799 - 200 pages
...country, great numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...assemble in flocks, and direct their course to the rich bottomlands. At this season they are observed in great numbers on the Ohio and Mississippi. The time... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1826 - 850 pages
...country, great numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...Mississippi. The time of this irruption is known to the Indians by the name of the turkey month. " The males, usually termed gobblers, associate in parties... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - Birds - 1831 - 392 pages
...country, great .numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...Mississippi. The time of this irruption is known to the Indians by the name of the turhey month. The males, usually termed gobblers, associate in parties,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 496 pages
...country, great numbers of turkeys arc enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...and Mississippi. The time of this irruption is known tp the Indians by the name of the turltty mpnth, " The males, usually termed gobblers, associate in... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - Birds - 1831 - 346 pages
...inhabit, great numbers of Turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...and direct their course to the rich bottom lands; and so constant is their appearance that the season of this irruption is known to the Indians by the... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - Galliformes - 1834 - 388 pages
...country, great numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still remains on the trees, they assemble in docks, and direct their course to the rich bottom lands. At this season they are observed in great... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...inhabit, great numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...assemble in flocks, and direct their course to the rich bottom-lands ; and so constant is their appearance, that the season of this irruption is known to the... | |
 | 1837 - 490 pages
...inhabit, great numbers of turkeys arc enticed from tbeir ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...assemble in flocks, and direct their course to the rich bottom-lands ; and so constant is their appearance, that the season of ibis irruption is known to the... | |
 | 1846 - 544 pages
...great numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About ihe beginning of October, while the mast still remains on the trees, they assemble in flocks and direct iheir course to the cch bottom lands. At this season they are observed in great numbers on the Ohio... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 208 pages
...country, great numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts, in the surrounding districts. About the beginning of October, while the mast still...Mississippi ; the time of this irruption is known, to the Indians, by the name of the turkey month. The males, usually termed gobblers, associate in parties,... | |
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... for the acorn, on which they rapidly fatten. When an unusually profuse crop of acorns is produced in a particular section of country, great numbers of turkeys are enticed from their ordinary haunts in the surrounding districts. About the beginning... 
