"mhtn Fernandez wrote. It muft be between the years 1555 and 1598^ 

 the period of Pi6i/z^'s reign. 



Pedro de Ciefa mentions Turkies on tne Ifthmus of Barien *\ Darieh. 

 Lery, a Porttigiiefe anchor, afferts that they are found in Braftl, and 

 gives them an Indimi name f ; but fince I can difcover no traces of 

 them in that diligent and excellent naturalift Marcgrave, who re- 

 fided long in that country, I nruft deny my afient. But the former 

 is confirmed by that able and honeft navigator Damper., who faw 

 ' them frequently, as well wild as tame, in the province oi Tucatan J, Yucatan. 

 now reckoned part of the kingdom o? Mexico. 



In North America they were obferved by the very firft difcoverers. N. America. 

 "When Rene de Laudonniere, patronized by Admiral Coligni, attempted 

 to form a fettlement near the place where CharleftoiSn now ftands, 

 he met with them on his firft landings in 1564, and by his hiftorian, 

 has reprefented them with great fidelity in the Vth plate of the re- 

 cital of his voyage ||. From his time, the witnefles to their being 

 natives of this continent are innumerable. They have been feen in 

 flocks of hundreds in all parts, from Louifiana even to Canada : but 

 at this time are extremely rare in a wild ftate, except in the more 

 diftant parts, where they are ftill found in vaft abundance. 



It was from Mexico or Yucatan that they were firft introduced into When first iv 

 Euro-pe; for it is certain that they were imported \x\X.6 England 2.% 

 early as the year 1524, the 15th oi Henry VIIT §. We probably re- 

 ceived them from Spain, with which we had great intercourfe 

 till about that time. They were moft fuccefsfully cultivated in 

 our kingdom from that period ; infomuch that they grew common 

 in every farm-yard, and became even a difli in our rural feafts by 



* Seventeen Years Traiieh, 20. •}• Ytx De Last's Befcr. des Indes, 491. 



J Voyages, vol. ii. part 2d. p. 65, Sjj 1 14. |1 De Bry, 



§ Baker's Chr. Anderfon^s DiSl. Com. i. 354. Hackluyt, li. 165. makes 



their introduftion about the year 1532. Barnaby Googe, one of our early writers on 

 hutbandry, fays they were not feen here before 1530. He highly commends a Lady 

 Rales, of Kent, for her excellent management of thefe fowl. p. 166. 



Q^q a the 



troduced into 

 Europe. 



