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| Query: birds of europe | Result: 1179th of 1703 | |
domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
| Subject: | domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
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Scan of illustration in a collection of fables
Date circa 1921
Source Cooper, F. T. (ed.) Bransom, P. (ill.) An argosy of fables; a representative selection from the fable literature of every age and land, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1921. Copy held by New York Public Library, obtained from http://www.archive.org/details/argosyoffablesre00coop2 Crop within black border on page, no colour correction has been attempted.
Author Paul Bransom
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plate_facing_page_474,_An_Argosy_of_Fables.jpg
The domesticated turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is a large poultry bird, domestic form of the wild turkey. The English language name for this species results from an early misidentification of the bird with an unrelated species which was imported to Europe through the country of Turkey. |
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