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of the tenth century, the copy being a late one, but that 

 the wording is in the main far older, going back to the 

 sixth century.* 



Another Anglo-Saxon mention of the Gannet is in the 

 " Codex Exoniensis," where reference is made to the 

 cries of birds — that of the Gannet — " ganetes hleothor " — 

 and of another species — " hu-ilpan sweg " — (Thorpe's ed., 

 1842, p. .'J07). Mr. Thorpe translates this passage : — 



" At times the swan's song 

 I made to me for pastime, 

 the Ganet's cry, 

 and the hu-ilpe'st note, 

 for men's laughter." 



A third mention of the Gannet, in the Anglo-Saxon 

 Chronicle, which has already been brought to the notice of 

 naturalists by Professor Cunningham, + runs : — 



* In a vocaljvilary in the British Museum imblished by Mr. T. Wright 

 (A.-S. Vocab., ed. Wiilker, col. 259), which has been supposed to be of the 

 xith century, sixty-six birds' names are given in old Latin and Anglo- 

 Saxon, of which three are — Merrjus, dop-fugel [diving fowl] ; Fulix, ganot 

 [Gannet] ; Anaer, hwite gos [white goose]. Another MS., also ascribed Ijy 

 him to the xith century (col. 404), ha.H Fulix, ganot, oththe dopened [i.e., 

 Gannet or di[)ping duck], 



t Probably the Curlew. (,?ee Notes in Phil. Soc. Trans., 1906, by the 

 Rev. Professor Skeat, p. 364), who says a base of this form would answer to 

 a later Northern E. whaup, which means a Curlew, or as a verb, to cry as 

 a Curlew, to whistle. He adds (in litl.) that the A.-S. word is hni/pan, 

 gon. of huilpe, i.e., hvnlpc, and that the hyphen is a mistake. 



J "Ibis," 1866, p. 1. A slightly different rendering is given in tlie 

 Parker MS (" Earle's Saxon Chronicles," p. 126). 



