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THE PEAPOCK.* 



The Peacock was originally brought from India, and thence into Persia and Media. 

 Aristoj)hanes mentions " Persian peacocks," and Suidas calls the peacock " the Median 

 bird." In the Scriptures it is enumerated among the costly articles imported by the 

 ships of Tarshish, employed by Solomon to enrich his country with the remarkable 

 products of foreign nations. The fleet of the Hebrew monarch might easily prociire it 

 either from India or Persia. From Persia it was gradually diffused through India, Egypt, 

 Greece, and Europe. 



The cradle of the peacock has long since been determined. It is in the countries of 

 southern Asia and the vast archipelago of the Eastern ocean that this bird appears to 

 have fixed its dwelling, and to live in a state of freedom. Such is the testimony of 



* Pavo Cristatus. 



