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Mr,. pennant’s Account 
Turkey to be thought a native of India. He 
quotes JELIAN for that purpofe, who tells us, 
^ That in India are very large poultry not with 
44 eombs, but with various coloured crefts inter- 
c< woven like flowers, with broad tails neither; 
bending nor difplayed in a circular form, which ; 
w they draw along the ground as peacocks do 
64 when they do not eredt them ; and that the 
w feathers are partly of a gold colour, partly 
“ blue, and of an emerald colour 
This in all probability was the fame bird with 
the Peacock Pheafant of Mr., edwards, Le Paon 
de Tibet of M. brisson, and the Pavo bi calcar a- 
ius of LiNNifiUs. I have feen this bird living.*. 
It has a cred, but not fo confpicuQus as that 
defcribed by jelxan ; but it has thofe Unking 
colours in form of eyes, neither does it eredP 
its tail like the Peacock *f, but trails- it like 
the Pheafant; The Catreus of strabo | feems, 
to be the fame bird; He defcribes it as unw 
commonly beautiful and fpotted, and very like 
a Peacock. The former author § gives a more 
minute account of this fpecies, and under the 
fame name. He borrows it from clitarchus, an 
attendant of Alexander the Great in all his, 
conquefts. It is evident from his defcription, 
that it was of this kind; and it is likewife pro- 
bable, that it was the fame with his large Indian 
* De Anim. Jib. XVI, c. 5.. 
■f- Edw. II. 67. 
Lib. XV. p. 1046 
§ De Anirrs, lib, XVII. c. 23. 
poultry 
