114 BRITISH BIRDS. 



'" The Eagle and its Nature," informs us that " Eagles are 

 as numerous here {i.e., in Ireland) as kites are in other 

 countries."] 



Accipiter, the Hawk, I. 20. tab. 7. Aid. 225. 228. G. 3. 



Hahaetus, the Sea Eagle, vel Osprey Turn. Quandoq ; 

 conspicitur in Cornubia, I. 12. tab. 2. Aid. 188. 190. G. 177. 

 sine icone. 



[The Osprey, cf. Turner (Evans' edition, pp. 35, 37, 193-195).* 

 Giraldus seems to have been responsible for the idea, freely 

 ■copied by later writers, that " By an extraordinary con- 

 trivance of sportive nature, one of their feet spreads open, 

 armed with talons, and adapted for taking their prey, the other 

 is close, harmless, and only fit for s\vimming." Merrett's 

 statement that it is seen in Cornwall is, no doubt, taken from 

 Carew's " Survey of Cornwall " (1602, Fol. 35).] 



Lanarius, the Lanar, mas vocatur, the Lanaret, Aid. 381.382. 

 I. 24. tab. 9. — in Shirwood Forest, in agro Notinghamensi, 

 and in Dean Forest, in agro Glaucestrensi. 



[The name " Lanar " has been applied to various species 

 of Falcons {of. Newton, Diet. Birds, p. 503). It is doubtful 

 if Merrett here means Falco lanarius — probably this bird 

 never bred in the British Isles — but vide Latham's " Falconry " 

 (1618, Book 11, p. 112), and Hollingshead "Description of 

 England " (1577, Ch. V., p. 227) to the contrary.] 



Accip. Palumbarius, the Goshawk, mas dicitur the Tassel, 

 Tertiolus, G. 43. 



[The Goshawk, cf. Willughby (p. 85). "Tassel," or 

 Tercel, the term applied by falconers to the male of the 

 Goshawk and Peregrine.] 



Accip. Fringillarius, & Nisus, the Sparrow-Hawk, I. 22. 

 tab. 8. Aid. 346. 347. G. 44. mas appellatur, the Muschel, 

 In plerisq ; locis sylvaticis. 



[" The male is called Muschel." The male of the Sparrow- 

 hawk was termed in falconry the Musket — cf. " Diary of 

 Master Wilham Silence " (p. 151), and " Merry Wives of 

 Windsor " (3.3.21) : " How now, my eyas-musket."] 



Tinnunculus mas & fsemina, a Stannel, or Stonegall, I. 

 22. tab. 8. Aid. 358. a Keshrel, or Kastrel, in tractibus Austral. 

 G. 46. 



[" Stannel" = Kestrel, cf. Swainson " Provincial Names of 

 British Birds " (p. 140).] 



* References to Turner are from Mr. A. H. Evans' edition. Cam- 

 bridge. 1903. 1 vol. 8vo. 



