CONTENTS. 
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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 
