144 TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN SPORTING. 



When the feathered trihe are at rest, the grouse 

 are said to be challenged ; the pheasants chuckered or 

 perched ; partridges jugged ; quails piped ; rails craked ; 

 woodcocks fallen; snipes at walk. When in search, 

 spring grouse, pheasants, and rails ; flush partridges, 

 woodcocks, quails, and snipes, when they are said to he 

 on the wing. In your heat, in the early part of the 

 season, you find a pack of grouse, a nide of pheasants, 

 a covey of birds, a bevy of quails, a fall of woodcocks, a 

 walk of snipes; rails, hares, &c., singly. Often you 

 find from ten to fourteen brace of birds in one covey ; 

 the cause is the birds nesting near each other, by which 

 means the young ones get together, and one bird takes 

 more than belongs to her, which is called robbing. 



When animals of the quadruped kind are inclined to 

 copulate, the following phrases are used. 



FEMALES The roe or hind, go to tourn. Doe, to 

 rut, or rutting. Wolf, to match, or make, or making. 

 Otter, to her kind. Vixen, to clicket, or is clieketing. 

 Wild Sow, to brim, or is brimming. Goat, to rut, or is 

 rutting. Hare, to clicket, or is clieketing. Rabbit, to 

 buck, or is bucking. Badger, to brim, or is brimming. 

 Bitch, is in heat, or getting fond. Polecat, Stoat, Ferret, 

 &c.,'are bucking. 



MALES The Stag or Hart, bellows. Buck, groans, or 

 troats. Wolf, howls. Otter, whines. Fox, barks. 



