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Show Sportsmen Have Language Sportsmen have almost developed a language of their own in designating designat-ing groups of particular animals and birds. For instance, observes the American Wildlife Institute, it would be high treason to refer to a bunch of partridges. One should always say a covey when referring ot members mem-bers of the partridge family. Then there is a nide of pheasants, a wisp of snipe, a flight of doves, a muster of peacocks, a seign of herons, a brood of grouse and a plump of wild fowl. Of course there is also always a Btand of plovers, a gaggle of geese, a bevy of quail, a cast of hawks, a skulk of foxes, a pack of wolves, a sleuth of bears |