++ 
Mr. pennant’s Account 
Turkey to be thought a native of India. He 
quotes Lilian for that purpofe, who tells us, 
44 That in India are very large poultry not with 
44 combs, but with various coloured crefts inter- 
44 woven like flowers, with broad tails neither 
44 bending nor difplayed in a circular form, which 
44 they draw along the ground as peacocks do 
44 when they do not eredt them ; and that the 
44 feathers are partly of a gold colour, partly 
44 blue, and of an emerald colour”** 
This in* all probability was the lame bird with 
the Peacock Pheafant of Mr* edwards, Le Paoti 
de Tibet of M. brisson, and the Pavo bicalcara - 
tus of linn alus* I have feen this bird living. 
It has a creft, but not fo conipicuous as that 
defcribed by allian ; but it has thofe ftriking 
colours in form of eyes, neither does it eredt 
its tail like the Peacock +> but trails it like 
the Pheafant. The Catreus of strabo J feems 
to be the. fame bird. He defcribes it as un- 
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. lib. XVI. c. 2, 
f Edw. II. 67. 
Lib. XV. p. 1046 
§ DeAnrm, lib. XVII. c, 25 , 
poultry 
