Crass Il. (FIO SR: 1, 
the new continent, and is now the commoneft 
wild fowl of the northern partsof that country. It 
was firft feen in France, in the reign of Francis I. 
and in England, in that of Henry VII. By the 
date of the reign of thefe monarchs, the firft birds 
of this kind muft have been brought from Mex- 
ico, whofe conqueft was completed, A. D. 1521. 
the fhort lived colony of the French in Florida not 
being attempted before 1562; nor our more fuc- 
cefsful one in Virginia, effected till 1585; when 
both thofe monarchs were in their graves. 
Ziélian, indeed, mentions a bird found in India* 
that fome writers have fufpeéted to be the Turky, 
but we conclude with Ge/ner, that it was either the 
Peacock, or fome bird of that genus. On confulting 
fome gentlemen who have long refided in the Indies, 
we find, that though the Turky is bred there, it is 
only confidered as a domeftic bird, and not a na- 
tive of the country. : 
* LEliani hift. an. lib. xvi. ¢. 2. 
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