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FIRST SERIES 



Page 215. A line has been omitted from the second stanza of the 

 Buckinghamshire Ballad. After ' Butson's Hill ' insert 

 ' And as many as e'er they pleased they 'd kill.' 



Page 247. For ' Malcolm Canmore ' read ' Malcolm the Maiden.' 

 Malcolm Ceannmor reigned 1058-1093, Malcolm the Maiden 

 1153-1165. 



Page 253, line 14. Leave out ' rushes swiftly at right and.' 



SECOND SERIES 



Page 8, line 9 from the bottom. I regret to have been guilty of this 

 error. William Scrope (1772-1852) of Castle Combe, author 

 of The Art of Deerstalking and Days and Nights of Salmon- 

 Fishing, was descended from Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron 

 Scrope (died in 1403), and that branch of the family ended 

 with his only child Emma, who married George Poulett 

 Thomson, Esq., M.P. (who afterwards took the name of 

 Scrope), and died without issue in August 1866. But Henry 

 Aloysius Scrope, Esq. of Danby-on-Yore, Yorkshire, is in 

 direct male descent from Henry, 6th Baron Scrope of Bolton. 



Page 12, line 2. For ' Glad wood ' read ' Gladswood.' 



Page 49, line 16. For ' hassti' read ' Haasti.' 



Page 71, last line. A serious slip! For 'cockchafer' read 'click- 

 beetle.' 



Page 92. The question propounded here has solved itself. In 1904 I 

 happened to see a great crested grebe (Podicipes cristatus) 

 sitting upright on the. shingle beside the Sanctuary Lake, and 

 watched the bird through the glass preening its plumage in 

 that attitude for fifteen or twenty minutes. A singular error 

 has crept into the description of this species in the late Lord 

 Lilford's admirable Coloured Figures of the Birds of the 

 British Islands, vol. vi. page 109. The generic name is 

 given as Podiceps, which means 'rump-headed,' whereas the 

 true name Podicipes signifies 'rump-footed,' in allusion to 

 the posterior position of the feet. 



Page 120, line 6. For 'frontinalis' read ' fontinalis.' 



Page 192, line 5. For ' loch-eacha' read ' each-locha.' 



Page 263, line 12. For ' chamceorus ' read ' cliamcemorus.' 



Page 281, line 3. For ' six-and-forty ' read ' two-and-forty.' 



Page 290, line 16. For 'five' read ' three.' 



