1870. W. J. Courthope, Paradise of Birds, 70.
| Man that is born of a woman, | |
| Man, her un-web-footed drake, | |
| Featherless, beakless, and human, | |
| Is what he is by mistake. |
1883. Western Mail, 21 July, 3/5. Oh, what a cackling there has been among the Barry geese today! I, one of Whyte Melville’s ‘un-web-footed drakes,’ crept up and listened.
