wild-fowl

n. (blunder) wild beast （讹用）野兽。
△Mid.3.1.33 (31): “for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living；”因为世上再没有比一头狮子更为可怕的野禽了。(Bottom说话惯用错字，把“野兽”说成“野禽”。)
wild-goose chase: a horse-race in which two horseswere started together and the riders who fell behindhad to follow the leader wherever he went (like a flight of wild geese)追大雁(一种赛马游戏，落后者必须追随领先者所走的路线)。
△Rom.2.4.77(71):“Nay,if ourwits run the wild-goose chase,I am done，”不，如果我们比聪明是追大雁、跑野马，我承认我输了。