Sunday, 20 December 2015

ATC365 #353 COLLY BIRDS and #354 FRENCH HENS




The French hens have always been just that - French hens.



The Colly birds have been many different things!

Angus in 1774 wrote that they were COLLY birds

Through the years they have been

CANARY

COLOUR'D

CURLEY

CORLEY

and most recently in 1909 Austin called them CALLING birds.

We seem to have reverted to COLLY again in 1966



Kim xx


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