Class II. T U R K Y. 283 



the new continent, and is now the commonefl: 

 wild fowl of the northern parts of that country. It 

 was firlt feen in France, in the reign of Francis L 

 and in Ryigland, in that of Henry VIII. By the 

 date of the reign of thefe monarchs, the firfl: birds 

 of this kind mud have been brought from Mex- 

 ico, whofe conqueft was completed, A. D. 152 1. 

 the fhort lived colony of the French in Florida not 

 being attempted before 1562 ^ nor our more fuc- 

 cefsful one in F/'r^fw/^, effeded till 1585 j when 

 both thofe monarchs were in their graves, 



Mlian, indeed, mentions a bird found in India* 

 that fome writers have fulpedled to be the ^urky^ 

 but we conclude with Gefner, that it was either the 

 Peacock, or fome bird of that genus. On confulting 

 fome gentlemen who have long refided in the Indies^ 

 we find, that though the Turky is bred there, it is 

 only confidered as a domeftic bird, and not a na- 

 tive of the country. 



* jEliani hijl. an. lib. xvi. c. 2, 



U 2 Strong 



