The birds of Shakespeare

by Archibald Geikie

[178] King John, V. vii. 20.

[179] Othello, V. ii. 249.

[180] Merchant of Venice, III. ii. 43.

[181] V. i. 14.

[182] Twelfth Night, II. v. 28.

[183] 1 Henry IV. II. i. 25.

[184] 1 Henry VI. III. iii. 5. Chaucer refers to

The pecock, with his aungels fethres brighte.

[185] Troilus and Cressida, III. iii. 244.

[186] King Henry V. IV. i. 195.