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ADDENDA to p. 1 51. with regard to Turkies.. 



MONARDEZ, who was a phyfician, and publiflied a medi- 

 cal hiftory of America in 1574 b (where he feems to have long; 

 refided), makes mention of many Mexican birds, but not of turkies. 



Torquemada's Monarquia Indiana was printed in 1615% and- 

 ftates that he had lived in the province of Mexico 25 years, yet 

 does not particularize turkies in the famous aviary of Montezuma* 

 the account of which he feems to have received from an ancient 

 eye-witnefs. 



There is the fame omiflion in another Spanifli Hiftorian infer- 

 ted in Venegas's Hiftory of California.. 



Ruyfch^ in his hiftory of animals, publiflied in 17 18, obferves, 

 that the Gallo-Pavus is Calecutenjis, or from Calecut, which was 

 fo much the emporium of the Indian ocean, after the Portuguefe 

 difcoveries, that in the ift. Vol. of Ramufio, printed at Venice in. 

 1554, there is a wooden engraving of a map, in which a fhip is 

 reprefented under fail, with the following words on the fide,, 



" Vado a Calicut:' 



Count Francefco Ginnani, in his account of the pine forefts>- 

 near Ravenna d , makes the following obfervation under the article 

 Gallina Indica, or Gallo-pavone. 



" Queft' uccello fu da naturalifti chiamato Gallina Indiana^ non 

 " perche da/1 India a noi prima 'venifl'e, perche nella Boetia e Grecia 

 " nafcono frequentemente: r 



An undoubted Baflan was fold at Chriftie's in 1780, reprefenting 

 a whitifli Turkey Cock and hen going into Noah's Anc. This 



b Seville. Quarto. * Seville, 3 vol. Quarto. 



d Roma, 1774. Quarto, 



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