“So they fill’d all their crops, &c.” [Page 10].
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Then long live the Peacock, in splendour unmatch’d,
Whose Ball shall be talk’d of, by Birds yet unhatch’d,
His praise let the [Trumpeter] loudly proclaim,
And the Goose lend her quill to transmit it to Fame.
NOTES.
[Page 4]. l. 15. [The Rip].] A machine used in poultry-yards, under which it is usual to confine the mother bird with the young brood, till it has acquired strength to follow her. The word is derived from the Saxon, Hrip, meaning a covering, or protection, for the young.
[P. 5]. l. 13. The [Taylor Bird] (Motacilla Sutoria).] So called from the singular manner in which it constructs its nest, which is composed of two leaves, sewed together with wonderful skill, by the little taylor, whose bill serves him for a needle, and the fine fibres of leaves furnishes him with a substitute for thread, and by which means he attaches a dead leaf to a living one, growing at the end of a branch. The Taylor Bird is an inhabitant of India.