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The Animal-Lore of Shahspeare s Time. 
The imagination of a Jules Verne would be required 
to supply the details of such a passage, and of the birds’ 
sojourn in their new habitation. Two months are allowed 
by this ingenious writer for the upward flight, three for 
the necessary repose and refreshment in the lunar world, 
and two more for the return journey. 
Harrison, in his description of Britain, prefixed to 
Lists of Holinshed’s Chronicle, gives a list of English 
Birds. birds; but as his knowledge of the subject 
is limited, the catalogue is necessarily incomplete. He 
writes:— 
“ Order requireth that I speake somewhat of the foules also of Eng¬ 
land, which I may easilie divide into the wild and tame: hut alas 
such is my small skill in foules, that, to say the truth, I can neither 
recite their numbers, nor well distinguish one kind of them from 
another. ... Of such [wildfowl] therefore as are bred in our land, we 
have the crane, the bitter, the wild and tame swan, the bustard, the 
herron, curlew, snite, wildgoose, wind or dottrell, brant, larke, plover 
(of both sorts), lapwing, teele, wigeon, mallard, sheldrake, shoveler, 
pewet, seamew, barnacle, quaile (who onelie with man are subject to 
the falling sickenesse), the notte, the oliet or olife, the dunbird, wood- 
cocke, partrich and feasant, besides divers other, whose names to me 
are utterlie unknown, and much more the taste of their flesh, where¬ 
with I was never acquainted. . . . Our tame foule are such (for the 
most part) as are common both to us and to other countries, as cocks, 
hens, geese, duckes, peacocks of Inde, pigeons, now an hurtful evil by 
reason of their multitudes, and such like. I would likewise intreat 
of other foules which we repute uncleane, as ravens, crowes, pies, 
choughes, rookes, kites, jaies, ringtailes, starlings, woodspikes, wood- 
nawes, &c. ... It may be that some looke for a discourse also of our 
other foules in this place at my hand, as nightingales, thrushes, hlacke- 
birds, mavises, ruddocks, redstarts or dunocks, larkes, tivits, king¬ 
fishers, buntings, turtles, white or graie, linets, bulfinshes, goldfinshes, 
washtailes, cheriecrackers, yellowhammers, felfares &c. But I should 
then spend more time upon them than is convenient. Neither will I 
speake of our costlie and curious aviaries daile made for the better 
hearing of their melodie, and observation of their natures.” ( Eolinshed , 
vol. i. p. 374, ed. 1807.) 
The Northumberland Household Booh, which gives 
