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you away from the vicinity of its nest, with the same arts as the 

 Partridge or the Lapwing. It will throw itself at your feet, 

 tumbling about as if tipsy, and then shuffle along with seemingly 

 broken pinions, using every effort it can think of to make you follow 

 it, and then, when you are at a safe distance from its nest and eggs, 

 it will fly off in the most provoking manner, rejoicing at having 

 done you. Meyer notices a curious characteristic of this bird, 

 which I can certainly bear witness to, that it invariably lines its 

 nest with black horsehair, and black only, and "it would be a curious 

 matter to observe," he says, " the lining of nests of this species in 

 counties where black horses are not generally met with, as, for 

 instance, in some parts of Suffolk/' Whether this peculiarity holds 

 good universally in all parts, I cannot however say. 



By Canon W. H. Jones, M.A., F.S.A., 



Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, 



(Cowlinned from Vol. xvii., p. 191.^ 

 Hubert Walter, 1189—1193. 



^I^OR five years after the decease of Jocelin de Bohun, there 

 was no Bishop appointed for the see of Sarum. When we 

 add to these the seven closing years of Bishop Jocelin's 

 life, in which, on account of his infirmities, he had to delegate 

 his duties to a suffragan or assistant Bishop, it gives us a long 

 period during which the see was bereft of the superintendence of its 

 proper diocesan. Its administrators were Hei'bert Archdeacon of 

 Canterbury, Jordan then Dean of Sarum, and Richard Eitz-Ebrard, 



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