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CHAPTER VI. 
THE BIRDS UNDER DOMESTICATION. 
Cock.—‘' Cock-Crow."’ —'' Cock-shut-time.”"—'‘ Cock-a-Hoop."'"—'‘ Cock and 
Pye.” —Cock-Fighting.—Ancestry of the Domestic Cock,—The Peacock. 
Its Introduction into Europe, and Ancient Value.—In Request for the 
Table.—The Turkey.—Date of Introduction into England.—Shakespeare’s 
Anachronism.—Pigeons.—First used as Letter-Carriers.—A Present of 
Pigeons.— Meaning of ‘‘ Pigeon-Liver’d.” — Pigeon-Post.— Mode of 
Feeding the Young.—The Barbary Pigeon.—The Rock-Dove. — Doves 
and Dovecotes.—The ‘‘ Doves of Venus.’’"—‘‘ The Dove of Paphos.”-- 
‘As True as Turtle to her Mate:" ‘‘as Plantage to the Moon.”— 
Mahomet’s Dove.—A Dish of Doves.——The Goose.—‘‘ Green-Geese,” 
and ‘‘Stubble-Geese.’’—‘' Cackling home to Camelot.”—‘'The Wild- 
Goose Chase.”"—The Swan.—‘‘The Bird of Apollo.’'"—Song of the 
Swan.—Habits of the Swan.—The Swan’s Nest.—As Soft as Swan's- 
down.—'‘ Juno’s Swans.” —Cygnets . 167 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE GAME-BIRDS AND ‘‘ QUARRY’ FLOWN AT BY FALCONERS. 
Sporting in Shakespeare’s Day. — The Pheasant. — Date of its Introduc- 
tion into Britain—Ancient Value of Game.—Game-Preserving.—Game- 
Laws.—Partridge-Hawking.—Anecdote of Charles I.—Quails.—Quail- 
Fighting. —The Lapwing.—Feigning to be Wounded.— Running as 
soon as Hatched.—The Heron, or Hernshaw.—Heron-Hawking.— Hawk 
and Hernshaw.—Heron at Table.—The Woodcock.—Springes for Wood- 
cocks.—How to Make a Springe.—A Gin.—‘‘ The Woodcock's Head.” 
—The Snipe ‘ 209 
CHAPTER VIII. 
WILD-FOWL AND SEA-FOWL. 
“A Flight of Fowl.'"—Habit of Wounded Birds. — ‘‘ Duck-Hunting."— 
Swimming ‘like a Duck."—Wild-fowling in Shakespeare's Day.— 
“The Stalking-Horse.’’—‘‘ The Caliver.”—'‘' The Stale,"—Wild-Geese. 
—Sign of Hard Weather.—The Barnacle Goose.—Barnacles.—Wild 
Fow].—Divers and Grebes.—The ‘‘ Loon.”—The ‘‘ Di-dapper.”—-The 
Cormorant.—Its Voracity.—Fishing with Cormorants..—The King’s Cor- 
morants.—Their ‘‘Keep” at Westminster.—Fishing at Thetford. -The 
Master of the Cormorants.—Entries in State Papers.—The Home of 
the Cormorant.—The Sea-side.—Shakespeare’s Sea-cliffs and ‘‘Sea- 
mells.”—Gulls and Gull-Catchers 235 
