I'll dreamt that I'll dwealth mid warblers' walls when throstles and choughs to my sigh hiehied

• Mutliation of "I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls / With vassals and serfs at my si-i-ide", sung in the opera The Bohemian Girl by Michael Balfe and Alfred Bunn.
  • This song is also sung in Dubliners.

• throstle: a species of Old World thrush, especially a song thrush

• warbler: any of various songbirds, of the family Parulidae in the New World and the family Silviidae in the Old World

• warbler: someone who warbles or sings

• chough: a crow-like Old World species of the family Corvidae.

• In addition to the explicit appearance of birds, pheasants, ducks, and goose, other bird species mentioned on Page 449 include:
  • swift, any of various small, fast insectivorous birds of the family Apodidae
  • swellaw → swallow, any of various small and graceful perching birds of the family Hirundinidae, found worldwide
  • spoonfind → spoonbill
  • Ipostila → apostle-bird: a name applied to several species of bird in Australia, including the grey jumper and the grey-crowned babbler
  • maurdering row → a murder, or group, of crows
  • owledclock → owl and cock
  • Saint Grouseus → grouse
  • hoopoe: a cinnamon-colored Old World woodland bird of the family Upupidae, which features prominently in Aristophanes' The Birds and Attar's The Conference of the Birds
  • drummling → dunlin, a brown and white species of sandpiper
  • snipers → snipe, any of various shore birds of the family Scolopacidae
  • peepet! peepet! → pipit, a brownish songbird related to warblers and thrushes
  • whippoor willy → whippoorwill, a North American nocturnal goatsucker with mottled grey, brown and white plumage