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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 

 Fowl. — 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 



