THE CHOUGH. 
US . 
Roger Ascham, in his “ Toxophilus,” when speaking of a 
clumsy archer, has a similar comparison to that in the 
passage just quoted :—“ Another coureth downe and layeth 
out his buttockes, as though hee should shoote at crowes.” 
“ We must not make a scare-crow of the law, 
Setting it up to fear * the birds of prey, 
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it 
Their perch, and not their terror.” 
Measure for Measure, Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Lord Talbot relates that, when a prisoner in France, he 
was exhibited publicly in the market-place :— 
“ Here, said they, is the terror of the French, 
The scare-crow that affrights our children so.” 
Henry VI Part I. Act i. Sc. 4. 
And Falstaff, alluding to his recruits on the march to 
Shrewsbury, says of them :— 
“ No eye hath seen such scare-crows!' 
Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Associated with the crow by many of the poets is the 
Red-legged Crow, or Chough—the Cornish Chough, as it 
is sometimes called, from its being considered a bird 
peculiar to the south-west coast of England. Since this 
last name was applied to it, the study of ornithology has 
‘ To fear," that is, “ to frighten.” 
