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find its name occurring in the list of birds in 

 the famous feast of archbishop Neville in the 

 reign of Edward iv. ; it does not appear on 

 the duke of Northumberland's household-book, 

 1512, nor is it alluded to in the household- 

 book of Henry viii., yet in these lists of flesh 

 and fowl for the table, the peion, or peacock, 

 is distinctly and conspicuously noted. It 

 would appear, then, not to have been intro- 

 duced until after the turkey ; — (we must par- 

 don Belon,) — probably not until the end of the 

 seventeenth, or beginning of the eighteenth 

 century. Even at present, in our country, it is 

 far less generally kept than the turkey. In the 

 colder latitudes of Europe, it is yet scarcely 

 known. Linnajus does not mention it in his 

 "Fauna Suecica,'' and we believe that neither 

 Denmark, Norway, nor Northern Russia pos- 

 sesses it ; at all events it is scarce. In India, 

 the guinea-fowl is to be seen only in a domestic 

 state, and is bred almost exclusively by 

 European gentlemen. It thrives as well as in 

 its native country. (See Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1832, p. 152.) 



Such is the meagre outline of facts which 

 we have been able to collect respecting the 

 European naturalization of the guinea-fowl. 



