390 Notes 011 tlie Maces of Bein Deer. [No. 4, 



pig among Bodentia, the Horse, Ass, and Pig among Pachydermata, 

 and the rest are Buminantia including tlie Camelidce. 



Of other Vertebrata, only the Cypeinus or Caeassitjs atjkatijs ; 

 and of Invertebrata only one or more species of Hive-bee and of 

 Mulberry silk-moth, unless the grana-fina Coccus which is doubtful, 

 — but the fact is attested that certain insects are domesticable. Among 

 mammalia, however, there is the crowning instance of all-dominant 

 civilized and domesticated mankind. Other species are or have been 

 (the individual, not the race,) tamed and trained, as the Elephant — 

 the Chita, Caracal, and even the Lion, — the Otter and the Cormorant, 

 — and various Falconidce ; # but not any of these can claim to be 

 regarded as domesticated races. A few more years will perhaps 

 show whether civilized man is competent to add to the number of 

 the latter. 



I now pass to another and comparatively unimportant matter, which 

 I have not before discussed in a scientific Journal. Having treated 

 of the domestic Turkey, it may further be remarked that the 

 origin of the English ñame Turkey has been much discussed, as 

 applied to a bird indigenous to America. The question has often 

 been asked, and I think that it can be answered satisfactorily. It is 

 certain that the Guinea-fowl was commonly termed the " Turkey 

 Hen" in former days, and henee a diíhculty sometimes in knowing 

 which bird is meant by sundry oíd authors. As the Portuguese 

 discoveries along the west coast of África preceded those of the 

 Spaniards in America, there is reason to infer that our British ances- 

 tors became acquainted with the Guinea-fowl prior to their knowledge 

 of the Turkey ; and the English trade being then chiefly with the 

 Levantine countries, our ancestors may well have fancied that it 

 carne from thence. Eeferring to a curious oíd dictionary in my 

 possession (published in 1678), for the word Meleagris, I find it 

 translated " a Ouinny or Turkey Hen :" Gallince Africance sew Nu- 

 midicce, Var. sine quae vulgo índices" (Goq d* Inde of the French, 

 corrupted into Dinde and Dindon !) . Again, Numidica guttata of 

 Martial is rendered " a Ginny or Turkey Hen." Looking also into 



* Add the Pig-tailed Monkey (Intjüs nemestrintts) in Sumatra, where trained 

 to gathei* cocoa-nuts ; wlience termed by Raífles Simia carpolegus. Also Cfnoce- 

 rnALUS uamadryas by the ancient Egyptians. {Vide figure in Wilkinson's 

 * Domestic Mamiers of the ancient Egyptians,' I, 150.) 



