Midrash for Chullin 126:35
ז' מאות מיני דגים הן וח' מאות מיני חגבים ולעופות אין מספר
My master transmitted to me that this bird is clean'.
Sifrei Devarim
And we are taught that the unclean beasts (and animals) are more numerous than the clean ones; for in all places Scripture specifies the lesser, viz. (Devarim, Ibid.) "This is the beast that you may eat … (5) the hart, the gazelle, and the fallow deer."
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