And the Parrot can tell who and who were together.
There was Lord [Cassowary] and General [Flamingo],
And Don Peroqueto, escap’d from Domingo;
From his high rock built eyrie the Eagle came forth,
And the Duchess of [Ptarmigan] flew from the North.
The Grebe and the Eider Duck came up by water,
With the Swan, who brought out the young Cygnet, her daughter.
From his woodland abode came the Pheasant to meet
Two kindred, arrived by the last India fleet;
The one, like a Nabob, in habit most splendid,