ABHARARCAN ALGERIAN. 3 



of a bird of prey, and Cotgrave gives aire. as "an airie or 

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

 ayrie, among falconers the place or nest where hawks 

 sit and hatch and feed their young." The spelling 

 eyrie or eyrey, used by many authors, seems to be in- 

 correct. Murray says it was first used by Spelman 

 (1664) who was under the misapprehension that the 

 derivation was Saxon, from egg ; Willughby and Ray 

 alsp spell it eyrie, Halliwell and Wright think eyrey 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 ; Milton has eyrie ; Ben Jonson uses aiery, 

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

 Past.") spells it eyerie, 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 Ayrshire in 

 1871 is thought to have escaped from captivity. 



AFRICAN HERON. The PURPLE HERON is so-called by 

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

 occurring in Africa, hence the name. 



AILSA COCK or AILSA PARROT. Local Scots names for the 

 PUFFIN ; also used in Antrim (Swainspn). 



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

 name " Alamonti " is given by Low, but Macgillivray 

 spells it Alarrumti, and this form way 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 mount. 



ALARCH DOF. A Welsh name for the MUTE SWAN; lit. 

 " tame swan." 



ALARCH GWYLLT. A Welsh name for the WHOOPER SWAN ; 

 lit. " wild swan." 



ALDROVANDINE OWLET. Macgillivray'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. 



