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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 
