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Random Facts about Groups of Animals
DESIGNATIONS OF GROUPS OF ANIMALS.
The ingenuity of the sportsman is, perhaps, no better
illustrated than by the use he puts the English language to
in designating particular groups of animals. The following
is a list of the terms which have been applied to the
various classes: A covey of partridges, A nide of pheasants,
A wisp of snipe, A flight of doves or swallows, A muster of
peacocks, A siege of herons, A building of rooks, A brood of
grouse, A plump of wild fowl, A stand of plovers, A watch of
nightingales, A clattering of choughs, A flock of geese, A
herd or bunch of cattle, A bevy of quails, A cast of hawks,
A trip of dottrell, A swarm of bees, A school of whales, A
shoal of herrings, A herd of swine, A skulk of foxes, A pack
of wolves, A drove of oxen, A sounder of hogs, A troop of
monkeys, A pride of lions, A sleuth of bears, A gang of elk.
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