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two great peninfulas which lie to the South, thefe three immenfe 

 territories went by the name of the Indies for pre-eminence. 

 When America therefore is referred to, it muft be termed the 

 Wejl Indies, to diftinguifh it from the Aiiatic India, fo long ia 

 polieffion of that appellation. 



I fufpecT:, however, that the turkey was never termed Pavo de 

 las Indias, becaufe we mall find that in moft of the European 

 tongues it is ftiled Cock of India and not of the Indies. 



In France, therefore, the name is Coq-d'Inde [not des Indes], 

 Indar, Paon d'Inde, Dindon *. In Italian, Gallina Indiana. 



BufFon gives us the German name of Indianifcher babri, or 

 the cock of India, but he omits the more common appellation of 

 Welfcher babn, or the cock from Italy; as alfo Kalekutifcher hahn?, 

 or the cock from Calcutta z . Nor is it at all extraordinary, that 

 this bird mould pafs under different names in different parts of 

 the fame empire, as the turkey to this day is called in Scotland 

 Bubble-Jack, [or Snotty- J ack~\, from the caruncle which projects 

 and hangs down beyond the bill of the male bird. 



The Portugnefe fynonym is peru, which I am informed is the 

 name for a turkey in the Eaft Indies, whilfl that of the Swedes 

 and Danes is kalkobn; in all which terms there is not the lead: 

 allufion to its firft coming from Mexico, or being difperfed from 

 Spain into the different parts of Europe and Afia. In the modern 

 Greek this bird is called Tana. 



x Cotgrave's Dictionary. 



y The moft common name in Silefia is auer hahn, which I am told 

 fignifies the wild hen. In Bavaria and the Palatinate, it is called Trutt 

 huhn. See Schoeffer's Ornithology. The Synonyms of Welfcher and 

 Kalekutifcher are to be found in Johnfton's Natural Hiftory, printed at 

 Amilerdam in 1657. 



z Barbofa vifited Bengal in 151 8, and fpeaks of feeing there "Galline 

 " grandiffime, e fmifurate," by which he poffibly means thefe Calcutta 

 turkies. Ramufio, Vol. L Gallus decumanus, quern Gefnerus gallopavum 

 vocat. De-Bry, Hut. Orient. Pt. 6. 



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