122 THE WILD TURKEY AND THE DOG.

remained quietly on the ground till its pursuer came up. The
dog was then about to seize it, when Audubon saw the former
suddenly stop, and turn her head towards him. On hasten-
ing up, he discovered, greatly to his surprise, that the turkey

 

was his own. As the bird knew the spaniel, it had not flown
away from her, as it would have done from a strange dog.

Unhappily, the turkey, again leaving home to range
through the forest, was mistaken for a wild one, and was
shot. Audubon knew it by a red ribbon being brought him
which he had placed round its neck.