Commentary for Chullin 124:30

אמר רב פפא

R'Papa said: The moor-cock is forbidden but the moor-hen is permitted, and in order to remember this think of the rule, 'An Ammonite [is debarred] but not an Ammonitess'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Is precluded from entering the community of Israel; cf. Deut. XXIII, 4. V. Yeb. 69a. The implication here is that the moor-cock is a forbidden t,kudbr, species, whilst the moor-hen is not. V. Tosaf. s.v. .');">²⁰</span>

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