4 TURKEY CULTURE. 



name was used and anglicised into turkey, a name that gives 

 rise to pleasant fancies about Thanksgiving day. Further- 

 more, the name was formerly spelled turky, as when Corbet, 

 Bishop of Oxford, writes to Buckingham : 



"Like very poore or counterfeit poore man, who, to preserve their 

 turky or their hen, do offer up themselves." 



In tracing the word to the Hebrew, the rules governing 

 etymologies have been complied with, since here we have 

 preserved the radicals t and fc, which fact only tends to 

 prove the origin of the word, according to the views here- 

 in set forth. And thus we see how the American peacock 

 was introduced by Cortez to its gaudier Eastern rival, and 

 received its ancient name, and how these proud birds o f 

 the Eastern and Western hemispheres became united to 

 each other by a name which, traced backwards, reveals 

 facts of linguistic interest, no less than the affinities and 

 glories of earth's most important feathered tribes. 



