[Sca-cooks] Rude and Barbarous Kingdom
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Wed Jan 16 20:08:56 PST 2013
> New World Turkeys appear in Campi's Fowl seller. I will have to look up
> the
> date but I believe it is mid 1500s.
1590, IIRC. Vincenzo Campi is 1539-1591. Most of his work dates from the
latter half of the 16th Century and the Bird Seller is the style of his
later work.
> From an old NPR, in Russia the turkey is called Injushka "bird of India"
> There is a very slim possibility that it is a turkey via India.
>
Simple confusion about India and the West Indies can explain it. Given
Rumpolt, I would hazard that the turkey arrived from Germany via Poland.
> The Houbara Bustard is small to medium in size and quite dull in color. It
> is a desert/arid land breeding bird and is not known to wander far from
> their territory. Found in N. Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan,
> China.... I don't know why the list of Russian birds list this one as
> other
> sources do not.
Russia shares habitat with Kazakhstan and China.
Bear
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