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Excerpt from Our Irish Song Birds
There was a swamp for Peewits, a heronry of forty nests, beyond it a rise, upon which at one time Woodpigeons were counted. There was a grotto, in which the owner used to sit to talk to the Robins that hopped upon his shoes; and in severe weather, boiled potatoes were placed on the islands for the Jackdaws. NO shot was ever fired; there were no dogs, and no keepers. Happy the birds that found shelter there; they fed on their kind benefactor's bounty whilst they lived, and many of them, stuffed by his own hands, adorned his museum when they died.
The varying terms used for ?ocks of birds seem to me highly interesting. Thus we have -a covey of partridges; a wisp of snipe; a ?ight of doves a siege of herons; a pack of grouse; a stand of plovers; a clattering of choughs; a nide of pheasants; a bevy of quails a muster of peacocks; a building of rooks a plump of wild fowl a cast of hawks a ?ock of geese and a watch of nightingales. This last hath a pleasant sound.
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