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Title: Upland game birds
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sandys, Edwyn Van Dyke, Theodore S. (Theodore Strong), b. 1842
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company, London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
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tion of Archbishop Cran-mer, by which it was ordered, that of such largefowls as cranes, swans, and turkey-cocks, thereshould be but one in a dish. The sergeants-at-law, created in 1555, provided, according toDugdale, in his Origines yuridicales, for theirinauguration dinner, among other delicacies, twoturkeys, and four turkey-chicks. These wererated at only four shillings each, while swans andcranes were ten shillings, and capons half-a-crown 302 The Turkey Family which would suggest that turkeys were thenrather common. In 1573 they were spoken of aspart of the usual Christmas fare at a farmerstable. In 1535 turkeys were known in France,and mentioned by writers as having been broughtthere a few years previously from the newly dis-covered Indian islands. In 1566 a present oftwelve turkeys was made by the municipality ofAmiens to their king. They are said to havebeen known in Germany about 1530. In Venice,a law made in 1557 specified the tables at whichthey were permitted to be served.
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A WOODLAND HERMIT(The Woodcock) THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK (jPhilohela minor) Adult male — Forehead, line over the eye, and entire lower parts;reddish tawny; between eye and bill an irregular, narrow lineof umber; top of head, black, crossed with three narrowbands of pale buff; eye, large, set far back and high in skull;cheeks, marked with a blackish line; sides of neck, tingedwith ash; primaries and secondaries, sooty black; rest ofupper parts, beautifully variegated with brown, black, tawny,and gray; tail, black, the outer edge of the feathers spottedwith brown; tips of tail-feathers, huffish above, white below;inside of wings, reddish tawny; legs, short, flesh color; weight,from five to six ounces. Total length, io; inches; bill, about21 inches, brownish flesh color, darkening to black at tip,upper mandible broadening at tip and slightly longer thanthe lower. Adult female — In general appearance like the male, but consider-ably larger and having all conspicuous markings somewhatpale

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