70 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



subjects, Barnaby Googe, who published it in his 

 work. This appeared in the year 1614, and he 

 refers to "those outlandish birds called Ginny- 

 Cocks and Turkey-Cocks," stating that "before 

 the yeare of our Lord 1530 they were not seene 

 with us!" 



Further, Bennett points out that "A more 

 positive authority is Hakluyt, who in certain 

 instructions given by him to a friend at Con- 

 stantinople, bearing date of 1582, mentions, 

 among other valuable things introduced into 

 England from foreign parts, ' Turkey-Cocks and 

 hennes' as having been brought in "about fifty 

 years past." We may therefore fairly conclude 

 that they became known in this country about 

 the year 1530. * 



Guinea-fowls were extremely rare in England 

 throughout the sixteenth century, while tame 

 turkeys became very abundant there, forming 

 by no means an expensive dish at festivals, — 

 the first were obtained from the Levant, while 

 the latter were to be found in poultry yards 



*No two authors seem to agree upon the exact date when the turkey 

 was really introduced into England. Here Bennett states positively 

 1530; Professor Baird has it 1541; Alfred Newton 1524, and so on. 



