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Sanct Martinys fowle, Saint Martin's fowl

 - probably the hen-harrier Circus cyaneus. William Dunbar's The Fenyeit Friar (1508) provides a whole flock of bird quotations:

The myttane, and Sanct Martynis fowle, Wend he had bene the hornit howle [long-eared owl].

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