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Europe, and there received a variety of names in dif- 

 ferent countries, most of which referred to India, carry- 

 ing out the early idea that America was a part of the 

 Indies. Thus the bird was called by the English "cock 

 of India" ; in French, poule d'Inde, contracted to dinde, 



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hen of India ; in Spanish, gallo or gallina de India, cock 

 or hen of India; in German, Indianische Henne or 

 Huhn, Indian hen, and also Calecutischer Hahn or 

 Henne, cock or hen of Calcutta. It was also called by 

 the Spaniards the Moorish hen, referring to a supposed 



