The wild turkey and its hunting . tion is from theArt. Turkey, and in further reference to its name, Professor New-ton remarks, The French Coq and Poule a Inde (whence Dindon)involve no contradiction, looking to the general idea of what India thenwas. One of the earliest German names for the bird, Kalekuttisch Hiim(whence the Scandinavian Kalkun) must have arisen through some mis-take at present inexplicable; but this does not refer, as is generally sup-posed, to Calcutta, but to Calicut on the Malabar coast (Notes andQueries, ser. 6, X, p. 185). But even Linnsgus could not clear himself of th

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The wild turkey and its hunting . tion is from theArt. Turkey, and in further reference to its name, Professor New-ton remarks, The French Coq and Poule a Inde (whence Dindon)involve no contradiction, looking to the general idea of what India thenwas. One of the earliest German names for the bird, Kalekuttisch Hiim(whence the Scandinavian Kalkun) must have arisen through some mis-take at present inexplicable; but this does not refer, as is generally sup-posed, to Calcutta, but to Calicut on the Malabar coast (Notes andQueries, ser. 6, X, p. 185). But even Linnsgus could not clear himself of the confusion, and,possibly following Sibbald, unhappily misapplied the name Meleagris,undeniably belonging to the guinea-fowl, as the generic term for whatwe now know as the turkey, adding thereto as its specific designationthe word gallopavo, taken from the Gallopavus of Gesner, who, though notwholly free from error, was less mistaken than some of his contemporariesand even successors. Of 3^ ^-§-3 ^. do <$

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