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have often heard ; the derivation fide Skeat, is 

 the Anglo-Saxon hreremiis, from A. S. hreran, to 

 agitate = flutter, and raws. 



' When I was at Weynaouth, or rather at 

 Portland, in the old "Zara," in April 1876, the 

 bay was full of Great Northern Divers, and so 

 was the harbour of Santander in November 1878. 

 The Grey Phalarope will ride out any amount 

 of sea. Eheu ! I received on Wednesday the 

 corpse of a splendid adult female peregrine from 

 a fruiterer at Peterborough, who told me that 

 he was informed that it was a " Humming 

 Buzzard " (sic) I I ' 



To Lieut. -Colonel Howard Irby. 



1 Lilford : October 19, 1894. 



' Donald McKay assures me that a very large 

 eagle flew within a hundred yards of him, hotly 

 pursued by Corvi on Monday last, just outside 

 Souther Wood. A Little Auk was brought to 

 me alive, but dying, yesterday morning, picked 

 up at Luddington, about six miles from this, on 

 Hunt's frontier. I am glad to hear that Meade- 

 Waldo promises some notes. Drewitt's Sand- 



