- 15.002 and flocks of finches;
I can’t resist a shout-out to the purple finch, the new Hampshire state bird.

I can’t resist a shout-out to the purple finch, the new Hampshire state bird.

A note on the naming of dwarves.
Sometimes “figure-of-eight”. This must mean that the numeral for the concept of eight was shaped like 8, since that’s the only logical shape described here.
“eight, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/59981. Accessed 13 September 2017.
A word attested in OED.
“ˈfeather-ˈbed, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/68813. Accessed 13 September 2017.