ClafsII. T U R K Y. 215 



" ted with white ; that they have no fpurs ; and that 

 •' both fexes are folike, as not to be diftinguifhed by 

 " the fight*." Varro z.ndi Pliny\ take notice of 

 their fpotted plumage, and the gibbous fubflance on 

 their head : fo that from thefe citations we find every 

 character of the Guinea hen^ but none that agrees with 

 the Turky. 



In fad, the '^urky was unknown to the antient na- 

 turalifts, and even to the old world before the dif- 

 covery of America. It was a bird peculiar to the ncv/ 

 continent, and is now the commoneil wild fov/I of 

 the nothern parts of that country. It was firft: fecn 

 in France^ in the reign o^ Francis I, and in England^ m 

 th^t of Henry VIII. By the date of the reign of thefe 

 monarchs, the firft birds of, this kind muft have 

 been brought from Mexico, whofeconqueil was com- 

 pleted, A. D. 1521. The iliort lived colony of the 

 French in Florida not being attempted before 1562 ; 

 nor our more fuccefsful one in Virginia, efFedled till 

 1585 ; when both thofe monarchs were in their 

 graves. 



jEHan, indeed, mentions a bird found in India J 

 that fome writers have fufpeded to be the 'Turky, but 



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ToT; ci^^eaiv ^io K^ ^vi^tuji^nov Ir* to ruv iA,i>.Bxy^i^ui> yU^. Atbuensus 

 655. 



f Varro. lib. 3.C. 9. Pliny. \\h. to. c, 26. 



j jEliani hiji. an. lib. xvi. C. 2. 



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