Virgil (Bucolic i., 18), mentions the croaking of the crow as a bad omen:—, And Butler in his "Hudibras" (part ii, canto 3), remarks:—, Even children now-a-days regard with no friendly feelings this bird of ill-omen; 1 and in the north of England there is a rhyme to the following effect:—, Among other allusions, mentioned by Shakspeare, to the crow, may be noticed the crow-keeper—a person employed to drive away crows from the fields. 3), where Antony, speaking of the superiority of Cæsar's fortunes to his own, says—, It appears that cocks as well as quails were sometimes made to fight within a broad hoop—hence the term inhoop’d—to keep them from quitting each other. [53] Only in Spain is it still common, and it has recently expanded its range in that country by nesting in old buildings in areas close to its traditional mountain breeding sites. Some, however, assert that the musket was invented in the fifteenth century, and owes its name to its inventors. Cotgrave's "French and English Dictionary," sub. Thus, in "King Lear," (i. We may also compare the expression in Henry V. (iv. Hence in the "Tempest" (i. (iv. (5). Why Do “Left” And “Right” Mean Liberal And Conservative? 3), are a fanciful combination of sounds, 1 meant to imitate the lark's note, borrowed, says Nares, from the French tire-lire. 4The chough or jackdaw was one of the birds considered ominous by our forefathers, an allusion to which occurs in "Macbeth" (iii. 2, In "Romeo and Juliet" (i. O thou varlet! 101:3 "Ornithology of Shakespeare," p. 171. In this sense some would understand it in the much disputed passage in "Hamlet," (iii. Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' my coz, well-qualified, skillful; (but usually with modern

Indeed, the following pages are alone sufficient to show, if it were necessary, how fully he appreciated every branch of antiquarian lore; and what a diligent student he must have been in the pursuit of that wide range of information, the possession of which has made him one of the most many-sided writers that the world has ever seen. p. 209. 142:2 Cf. 121:3 The reading of the folios here is stallion; but the word wing, and the falconer's term checks, prove that the bird must be meant. From the very earliest times there have been countless traditions respecting this wonderful bird.

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Yarrell observes that in the description of Dover cliff,— “The crows and choughs that wing the midway air,” “— possibly Shakespeare meant Jackdaws, for in the Midsummer-Night's Dream he speaks of russet-pated (greyheaded) Choughs, which term is applicable to the Jackdaw, but not to the real Chough.”

In "Macbeth,", too (iv. 4), "I have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here." There are two species of passerine birds commonly called chough that constitute the genus Pyrrhocorax of the Corvidae family of birds.

", Hawk.—The diversion of catching game with hawks was very popular in Shakespeare's time, 1 and hence, as might be expected, we find many scattered allusions to it throughout his plays.

Thus in "Henry VIII." At the outset, many of the epithets ascribed to it show the prejudice with which it was regarded—being in various places stigmatised as "the vile owl," in "Troilus and Cressida" (ii. Red-billed chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)Alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus).

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