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92 Gaelic Society of Inverness.
Of the common fowl Penuiint sa\s— "Our common poultry
came originally from Persia and India. They were early introduced
into the western ])arts of the world, and have been very long
naturalised in this country, long before the arrival of the Romans
in tliis island, Ciesar informing us they were one of the forbidden
foods of tlie old Britons. These were in all probability imported
here by the Phaniicians, who traded to Britain about live luindred
years before Christ. For all other domestic fowls, turkeys, geese,
and ducks excepted, we seem to be indebted to the Romans. The
wild fowl were all our own from the period they could be supposed
to have reached us after the great e\ent of the Hood."
I need scarcely remind any one who knows anything about
the Highlands, in the days of our grandfathers, what an institution
cock-tighting was in every part of the country, especially in the
parish schools, where certain days were set specially apart for cock-
tighting, with the old schoolmaster as president, who claimed all
the slaughtered cocks as a perquisite.
Gaelic
—
Coileach-franqach, CoUeach-turcach, Turcach, Turcaire.
Cearc-fhrangach, Cearc-tlmrcach
Hen
— — —
Gaelic Peiicag (1st Kings x. 22), Coileach-fheuchaig, Peubhchoileach;
Pecoc (Alex. Macdonald). Hen—d'arc-fheAicaig,
Gaelic
Gaelic
The old song says :
GUINEA FOWL.
Goileach-innseanacJi.
PIGEON.
Cahnan, Gura-gug, Duradan.
Fhuair mi nead a ghura-gug,
Ann an^cuil na moine,
Fhuair mi'an toisicli uibhean ann,
'S fhuair mi ris eoin ann,
'8 fliuair mi nead a ghura-gug,
Ann an cuil na moine, itc.
GOOSE.
Gaelic—Gander—Canm^M, Sgeigeir. Gooso—Geadh.
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