Nouns: Nouns #16: Special Names for Groups (#4)

Nouns #16:
Special Names for Groups (#4)

	There are actually many special quantifiers used for specific nouns--but many of them are literary or archaic ("old-fashioned") terms that were never very well known and are certainly not well known or commonly used today. Because they are unusual and interesting, however, we've included a few of the more colorful ones:
	a bale of turtles		a nest of mice
	a band of gorillas		a nye of pheasants
	a bevy of swans		an ostentation of peaocks
	a brood of hens		a parliament of owls / rooks
	a cast of falcons / hawks		a plague of locusts
	a colony of ants / beavers / gulls / penguins / rats / seals		a school of porpoises / dolphins
	a flight of doves / pigeons		a skulk of foxes
	a knot of toads		a sloth of bears
	a leap of leopards		a sounder of boars / swine
	a murder (or hover) of crows		a string of ponies

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Special Notes:

Remember that many of the above terms are not well known or commonly used.