TURICEY-FOWL AND GUINEA-FOWL. 
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Meleagris , I find it translated ‘ a Guinny or Turkey 
Hen:’ Gallince Africans seu Numidicce , Var. ‘sine quae 
vulgo Indicae’ ( Coq dPnde oi the French, corrupted into 
Dinde and Dindon!). Again, Numidica guttata of Martial 
is rendered ‘a Ginny or Turkey Hen.’ Looking also 
into an English and Spanish Dictionary of so late a 
date as 1740, I find Gallipavo rendered ‘a Turkey or 
Guinea Cock or Hen.’ Well, it is known that our British 
forefathers originally derived the domestic turkey from 
Spain, and meanwhile they are likely to have obtained 
a knowledge of the true habitat of the guinea-fowl, and 
therefore may very probably have supposed the former 
to be the real turkey- fowl, as distinguished from the 
guinea- fowl ; and if the word ‘ fowl ’ be dropped in the 
one instance and not in the other, be it remembered 
that there was another special meaning for the word 
Guinea , having reference to the Gold Coast, otherwise 
the bird might have come to be known as the ‘ guinea,’ 
as the bantam-fowl is now currently designated the 
‘ bantam,’ and the canary-bird as the ‘ canary,’ or the 
turkey-fowl the ‘ turkey.’ The Latin - sounding name 
Gallipavo seems to be of Spanish origin, and obtains 
among the Spaniards to this day; but their earliest name 
for it was ‘ Pavon de las Indias! ‘ c’est-a-dire,’ as Bufifon 
remarks, ‘ Paon des Indes Occidentals /’ which explains the 
reference to India perpetuated in ‘ Dindon .’” 
The turkey is again mentioned by Shakespeare in 
