The scare-crow that affrights our children so.”
Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 4.
And Falstaff, alluding to his recruits on the march to Shrewsbury, says of them:—
“No eye hath seen such scare-crows.”
Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.
THE CHOUGH.
Associated with the crow by many of the poets is the Red-legged Crow, or Chough—the Cornish Chough, as it is sometimes called, from its being considered a bird peculiar to the south-west coast of England. Since this last name was applied to it, the study of ornithology has
become so universally courted, that it can scarcely be necessary to show that the geographical distribution of the species is much wider than was formerly supposed.
THE CHOUGH AND CROW.
The old song of “The Chough and Crow” will probably be remembered as long as the English language lasts.