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A certain Captain Bird was listed as a subscriber on page 278 of William Greenwood Walker's A selection of games of chess, actually played in London, by the late Alexander Mcdonnell … (Thomas Hurst, 1836).

Can anyone supply any information about Captain Bird?

Isn't that Captain Bird's Eye?

Um yes, I think that was the joke

oops, you should have given me a few more years to work it out