The final clue is a bit of artistic license on my part, but this is a duck, or two, and the male duck is called a Drake. Curiously the word comes all the way from Old English, where a male duck, or what was known then as a "duck king", was called an Andraca. As for what a female duck was called, sadly, it is not a "duck queen", it is just a hen.
Now the Rouen Duck may just look like a normal duck, but it is much larger, up to about six kilos. It comes from the Rouen area of France and it was prized for the fact that its largeness meant more meat. This is still the case in the more rural areas, but they also have a new lease of life as it were on the exhibition table with shows and competitions for the heaviest and most beautiful.
As far as Indian Runners, they are so named because they stand up on their hind legs and run about, in a most curious way. However, if we are being totally correct, they ought to have been named Indonesian Runners for they are found in Java and Bali.
This card is unusual because at the bottom it says "Serie XV Peter", and the "Peter" is not usually there. I did think that perhaps Peter issued the set first before the companies combined and so maintained the copyright, but then I found the same set without "Peter" at the bottom. And you can also find it as "Serie 49" - and as "Serie XXXXIX", all of which are by all of the names without the "Peter" at the bottom
Anyway this is set of twelve cards, and very attractive they are too. As far as the birds which form the set, they are :
- Pigeon Romain / Pigeon Carrier - (Roman Pigeon / Carrier Pigeon)
- Pigeon Paon / Pigeon Capucin / Pigeon Boulant - (Fantail / Jacobin / Pouter or Cropper)
- Canard De Rouen / Canard Coureur Indien - (Rouen Duck / Indian Runner Duck)
- Oie de Toulouse - (Toulouse Goose)
- Canard Muet ou de Barbarie - (Muscovy Duck)
- Faisan Dore - (Golden Pheasant)
- Faisan Ordinaire - (Common Pheasant)
- La Pintade - (Guinea Fowl)
- Le Dindon Noir - (Black Turkey)
- Le Paon - (The Pheasant)
- Paon Blanc - (White Pheasant)
- Cygne Blanc - (White Swan)