The birds of Shakespeare

by Archibald Geikie

[205] 2 Henry IV. III. ii. 7. I have heard in East Lothian a remarkably dark-complexioned child called “a blacket ouzel.”

[206] Winter’s Tale, IV. iii. 9.

[207] Macbeth, IV. ii. 8.

[208] Cymbeline, IV. ii. 304.

[209] Merchant of Venice, V. i. 104.

[210] 2 Henry VI. III. ii. 42.

[211] King Lear, II. ii. 59.

[212] II. v. 5.

[213] Cymbeline, IV. ii. 219. Chaucer speaks of “the tame ruddock.”

[214] Two Gentlemen of Verona, II. i. 16.