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ny * take notice of their fpotted plumage, and 
the gibbous fubftance on their head: fo that from 
thefe citations we find every character of the Gui- 
nea ben, but none that agrees with the Turky. 
Barbot+ informs us that very few ¢urkies are to 
be met with in Guinea; and thofe only in the hands 
of the chiefs of the European forts; the negroes 
declining to breed any on account of their ten- 
dernefs which fufficiently proves them not to be 
natives of that climate. On the contrary the fame 
writer fays, that the Guinea hens, or as he calls 
them Pintadas, are found there in flocks of two 
or three hundred, that perch in trees, feed on 
worms and erafshoppers; that they are run down 
and taken by dogs, and that their flefh is tender 
and fweet, generally white, though fometimes black. 
He alfo remarks that neither the common poultry 
or ducks are natural to Guinea, any more than 
the Turky. 
Neither is that bird a native of Afa: the firft 
that were feen in Perfi2 were brought from Venice 
by fome Armenian merchantst=. They are alfo 
cultivated in Cey/ou, but not found wild. 
In fact the Jurky was unknown to the antient 
naturalifts, and even to the old world before the 
diicovery of America. It was a bird peculiar to 
* Varro. lib. 3.¢.9. Play. lib. 10.¢. 26. + Barbot 217. 
t Yavernier. 146. 
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