202 THE GANNET 



Rarities preserved at South Lambeth,'''' mdclvi. In this 

 catalogue of Tradescant's Museum we find the following 

 entry (p. 4) : — 



" Barnacles, four sorts. 



" Solon Goose. 



" Squeede from the Basse in Scotland.'" 



Professor Newton has suggested that the word " squeede " 

 here means a young Gannet dried (" Rept. Museums Associ- 

 ation," 1891, p. 32). The word is made -use of again in 

 Merrett's " Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum," 

 (1667), where he says: " Anseris speciem vidi in Cimelio 

 Tradescanti sub nomine squeed una cum Ovo ex Insula 

 Scotica Bass dicta " (p. 179). Mr. W. H. Mullens thinks that 

 the Eider Duck is intended,* It can hardly be the Gannet 

 in this passage which is mentioned by Merrett a few lines 

 lower down. Mr. Evans suggests the Guillemot which has 

 been called a " Queet " in Kincardine. 



22. " Britannia Baconia : or. The Natural Rarities of 

 England, Scotland and Wales," by J. Childrey (1661), 

 p. 175. 



As Childrey's account of the Gannet is evidently taken 

 from the authors who have been already quoted (Turner 

 and Harvey chiefly) it is unnecessary to repeat it. 



* " British Birds " (Mag.), 1908. p. 158. 



