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Show BRITI8H PEERAGE AND ORNI-THOLOQY. ORNI-THOLOQY. Baron Peckover, one of the new peers, who has decided to incorporate the woodpecker in his armorial bearings, bear-ings, adds another to the long list of members of tho upper house who have laid ornithology under tribute in tho composition of their family escutcheons. escut-cheons. The Earl of Leicester, for instance, and Lord Rosmead have Introduced the ostrich, Lord Amherst of Hackney the heron; the Earl of Stair the stork, and L( rl Tonterden and Lord Ashbourne Ash-bourne the pelican the last named "in her piety on a bank of reeds proper." prop-er." The Cornish chough figures, in the coats of arms of Lord Bolton and Lord Onslow, the latter having also an eagle, preying on a partridge, and a falcon. The swan is in those of Lord Halsbury, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Bur-leigh, and Earl Beauchamp; Lord Bra:-soy Bra:-soy has tho mallard, Lord Ahton the eagle, and Viscount Combermero the alcon. London Dally Graphic. |
