BIRDS AND BEASTS IN COMPANIES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 6

BIRDS AND BEASTS IN COMPANIES

A bevy of quails. A brood of grouse. A building of rooks. A cast of hawks. A covey of partridges. A desert of lapwings. A fall of woodcock. A gaggle of geese. A muster of peacocks. A flight of doves and swallows. A nide of pheasants. A brood of hens. A chattering of choughs. A sedge <or seige) of herons. A cete of badgers. A drove of cattle. A lepe of leopards. A tribe of goats. A cluk of foxes. A sloth of bears. A nest of rabbits. A flock of sheep. A herd of buffaloes, giraffes, and deer. A kindle of kittens. A litter of pups or pigs. A richesse of martens. A fesynes of ferrets. A singular of boars. A pack of hounds or wolves. A sounder of hogs. A drove of kine. A troop of monkeys. A shrewdness of apes. A pace of asses. A dule of turtle. A clowder of cats. A harras of horses. A rag of colts. A stud of mares. A labour of moles. A watch of nightingales. A herd of swans, cranes, and curlews. A dopping of sheldrakes. A spring of teals. A covert of coots. A congregation of plovers. A walk for wisp) of snipe. A murmuration of starlings. A badelynge of ducks. An exaltation of larks. A host of sparrows. A skein of geese (flying). A down of hares. A pride of lions.