Weihaiwei, Jan. 4—That Turkeys can be bred in this dry climate is witnessed by the fact that there are five adult birds walking round the compound where I am staying, two of which are birds bred this year and now in the pink of condition: the male parent is a very handsome bird with plumage which is more than fifty per cent white: he is certainly not a ime descendent of the North American bronze Turkey and must, I think, have come from a Mexican strain which is much more variegated in its colouring. This bird has another peculiar-
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