“What d’you mean—‘feathers’,” asked the tanned young public school man who volunteered to trot me round, “spads, second-after-chicks, fancies, natals, black butts, adults, juvenals, byocks, chicks, primes, feminas, or what?”[…]The first white ones we call spads.[…]Two or three months after that clipping we pull out the spad quills.

Belinda was a jaybird and could prattle on for hours about the latest gossip.

vestiges of former population

The HS6 capsule type remains obscure, due to the fact that CPS has been shown not to be the serodeterminant of the HS6 serotype and might explain the high number of false positive identified with Mu_HS6 designed previously [31, 32 ].