The Oriental club and Hanover Square . e, HanoverSquare, dated November 21, 1842; the other by Hull, of thesame address, and dated October 3, 1900. They are bothheaded with the Eoyal arms, and I am informed that the shopwas first established as a poulterers in 1794. The variationin prices is very slight, and in poultry is scarcely perceptible;but in game there are some changes: partridges were Is. Q>d.,as against 2s. M. to-day; grouse, 3s., as compared with 4s. Qd.;capercailzie and blackgame do not appear on the old list, nordo quails, but in their place we have some birds for whichapparent
The Oriental club and Hanover Square . e, HanoverSquare, dated November 21, 1842; the other by Hull, of thesame address, and dated October 3, 1900. They are bothheaded with the Eoyal arms, and I am informed that the shopwas first established as a poulterers in 1794. The variationin prices is very slight, and in poultry is scarcely perceptible;but in game there are some changes: partridges were Is. Q>d.,as against 2s. M. to-day; grouse, 3s., as compared with 4s. Qd.;capercailzie and blackgame do not appear on the old list, nordo quails, but in their place we have some birds for whichapparently there is no demand to-day, as, for instance, duubirds, ruffs and reeves, and Turnham Green pigeons. The dun bird, I am told, is so like a widgeon that it haslong since lost its originality, and consequently may still comeinto the market under another name. Ruffs and reeves—or rather ruffs or reeves, for they areso scheduled in the Wild Birds Protection Act of 1880, and Ithink that they are one and the same bird—are now very un-. ^.v/. fUnjrJl/:.:^. Our Growth 97 common, due, it is stated, in a great measure to their owncharacteristics. RufEs are very peculiar birds, and so pug-nacious that they will fight for fifteen minutes at a stretch,with ruffs bristling and head lowered. They are allied to thewoodcock and sandpiper, and the cock has a tuft of feathersround the neck. The Turnham Green pigeon, price Is., while othervarieties in the old list are quoted at 6d., was, I presume,the cheap bird that it was customary to send to TurnhamG-reen when that spot was the great centre of pigeon-shooting,or it was the bird put on the market for sale after it had beenshot at, but I have never had any satisfactory explanation ofthis item. Sir Charles T. Metcalfe (afterwards Lord Metcalfe) was anoriginal member of the Club, but he had never been able tojoin until 1839, for he had passed thirty-eight years in Indiawithout once returning home; and to mark their sense of hisdistinguis
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