Not natives 
of Europe ; 
nor of 
Afia; 
of the Turkey i 
poultry before cited. He celebrates it alfo for its 
fine note ; but allowance muff be made for the 
credulity of jelian. The Catreus , or Peacock 
Pheafant, is a native of Tibet, and in all proba- 
bility of the north of India, where clitarchus 
might have obferved it ; for the march of Alex- 
ander was through that part which borders on 
Tibet, and is now known by the name of Fenj-ab 
or five rivers. 
I fhall now collect from authors the feveral 
parts of the world where Turkies are unknown 
in the ftate of nature. Europe has no fhare in 
the queftion; it being generally agreed that they 
are exotic in refpedt to that continent. 
Neither are they found in any part of Afia 
Minor, or the Afiatic Turky, notwithftanding 
ignorance of their true origin firft caufed them to 
be named from that empire. About Aleppo, 
capital of Syria, they are only met with, do- 
mefticated like other poultry *. In Armenia they 
are unknown, as well as in Perfia ; having been 
brought from Venice by fome Armenian mer- 
chants into that empire where they are hill fo 
fcarce as to be preferred among other rare fowl in 
the royal menagetyj. 
du h alde acquaints us, that they are not natives 
of China; but were introduced there from other 
* RtJSSEL, 63. 
f Tavernier, 146, 
J bell’s Travels, 1 , 128, 
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countries. 
