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32 swallow without legs or beak), Parrot or Popinjay, Crow, Goose, Raven, Owl, Ostrich, and Dove.

Fish are represented as naiant, or swimming (Fig. 119); hauriant (Fig. 120); uricant (Fig. 121); and   (Fig. 122), in which position the Dolphin is usually represented.

Irish axe described as scaled and fined

Among Shells, the Escallop or Scallop, and the Whelk, are those for which heralds have shown the greatest predilection. The accompanying diagrm (Fig. 123) would be blazoned: Argent, a cross gules, cantoned by four escallops

Reptiles and Insects. Of Reptiles, the Serpent, Scorpion, and Tortoise the most common; and of Insects, the Bee, Butterfly, and Grasshopper.

Serpents may be nowed (twisted or knotted, Fig. 124); erect (placed in pale); erect wavy; or involved, which later means curved in a circle, without being nowed.