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of a bii"d of prey, and Cotgrave gives aire as "an airie or 

 nest of hawkes." Dyche and Pardon have " eyrie or 

 a\Tie, among falconers the place or nest where hawks 

 sit and hatch and feed their 3^0 ung." The spelling 

 eyi'ie or eyi'ey, used by many authors, seems to be in- 

 correct. Murray says it was fu'st used by Spelman 

 (1664) who was imder the misapprehension that the 

 derivation Avas Saxon, from egg ; Willughby and Ray 

 also spell it eyrie, Halliwell and Wright thiiik ejTey is 

 the right form, derived from ey, Mid.-Eng. for egg. The 

 word occurs in most of our early authors : Shakespeare 

 has ayerie, but the word is printed aery and aiery by most 

 editors ; iMilton Has eyrie ; Ben Jonson uses aiery, 

 but applies it to a brood of kestrels ; Browne (" Britan. 

 Past.") spells it e?/em, and Massinger ("Maid of Honour," 

 I, 2.) has :— 



One airy, with proportion ne'er discloses 

 The eagle and the wren. 



African Crowned Crane. An example obtained in A^Tshire in 

 1871 is thought to have escaped from captivity. 



African Heron. The PURPLE HERON is "so-called by 

 Latham, Lewdn, Montagu, etc. It is a migratory species 

 occurring in Africa, hence the name. 



AiLSA Cock or Ait^sa Parrot. Local Scots names for the 

 PUFFIN ; also used in Antrim (Swainson). 



Alamonti : The STORM-PETREL. (Orkneys.) The Orcadian 

 name " Alamonti " is given by Loav, but Macgillivray 

 spells it Alamotiti, and this form was sent me by Mr. R. 

 Godfrey as a Shetland name ; it is also rendered Allamotti ; 

 Jamison thinks it is of Italian extraction from ala, a wing 

 and monte, to moimt. 



Alarch dof. a Welsh name for the ^lUTE SWAN ; lit. 

 " tame swan." 



Alarch gwyllt. A Welsh name for the WHOOPER SWAN ; 

 lit. " wild swan." 



Aldrovandine owlet. MacgiUivray's name for the SCOPS 

 OWL. 



Alexandrine Plover : The RINGED PLOVER. 



.ALGERIAN RED-NECKED NIGHTJAR [No. 204]. A bird 

 obtained near Newcastle in 1856 and recorded in most 

 subsequent authors as the " Red-necked Nightjar," is 

 considered by Hartert to belong to the " desert " form 

 inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, and not to the western or 

 Spanish form ; hence the change of name. 



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