APPENDIX. 



There are several matters of some degree of interest and impoi'tance 

 to the shooting sportsman, which we have here placed under the 

 head of an appenaix,_ chiefly on acconnt of not having- snitable posi- 

 tions to insert them in the body of the work. We shall enumerate 

 them under distinct heads. 



PHRASEOLOGY. 



There is a pecnliar kind of language used by sportsmen confined 

 to the shooting of birds, which only fowlers are supposed to be 

 accjuainted with. The following are the chief phrases : — K sege of 

 herons and bitterns ; an herd of swans, of cranes, and of curlews; 

 a deppmg of sheldrakes ; a sprhuj of teals ; a covert of coots ; a 

 gaggle of geese : a hadelynge of ducks ; a sord, or side, of mallards; 

 a muster pi peacocks ; a nye of pheasants ; a levy of quails ; a covey 

 of partridges ; a congregation of plovers ; a icalk of snipes ; a foM 

 of woodcocks; o. brood of hens; a building of rooks; a mimmira- 

 tim of starlings ; an exaltation of laiks ; d. flight of swaUovrs ; a host 

 of sparrows ; a watch of nightingales ; and a charm of goklllnches. 



GAME LxiWS. 



Hares maybe killed at any time of the year. Pheasants from 

 the 1st of October to the 1st of Eebruary. Partridges from the 

 1st of September to the 1st of Eebruary ; penalty for Idlling them at 

 other tunes, 5/. — Grouse from the 12th of August to the 10th of 

 December. Black game (in Devonshire, Somersetshire, and the 

 New Eorest) from the 1st of September to the 10th of December. 

 Black game (everywhere else) from the 20th of August to the lOtli 

 of December. Bustards from the 1st of September to the 1st of 

 March ; penalty for killing at other times, 20/., or not less than 10/. 



