Abstract Leadenhall Market, in London, was perhaps the most famous of the poulterer’s markets that could be found across Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The scale of commercial trade in birds, chiefly wildfowl and gamebirds but including many others, at such markets was remarkable. Rare and scarce birds turned up with some regularity, whether accidentally or in

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