Wild Turkey, female
Rare Prints edition of 1500, measuring 29 x 39 inches.
Audubon wrote, "The female is considerably inferior in size, with the wattles much smaller, the tuft on the breast comparatively small, and only in old birds; the colour of the plumage duller; there being but little of the refulgent hues of the male; the lower parts brownish-black. The young, before being fledged, are pale brownish-yellow above, pale yellowish-grey beneath, the top of the head brighter, marked in the middle with a longitudinal pale brown band; the back and wings spotted with brownish-black, excepting the smaller wing-coverts, which are uniformly dull brown."
Rare Prints edition of 1500, measuring 29 x 39 inches.
Audubon wrote, "The female is considerably inferior in size, with the wattles much smaller, the tuft on the breast comparatively small, and only in old birds; the colour of the plumage duller; there being but little of the refulgent hues of the male; the lower parts brownish-black. The young, before being fledged, are pale brownish-yellow above, pale yellowish-grey beneath, the top of the head brighter, marked in the middle with a longitudinal pale brown band; the back and wings spotted with brownish-black, excepting the smaller wing-coverts, which are uniformly dull brown."