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Falco, the Faulcon, I. 30. tab. 12. speciem nescio, in Pem- 

 brook-shire. 



[The figure in Jonstonus is seemingly that of the Peregrine, 

 cf. Willughby (pp. 76 and 79) for Peregrine.] 



Coccyx, Cuculus, the Cuckoe, or Guckoe, I. 24. tab. 10. Aid. 

 414, 416. sub medium Aprilis nos advolat. 



Lanius, the Butcher, or murdering Bird, I. 24. [Page 171.] 

 tab. 10. Aid. 389. G. 520. vidi juxta Kingsland, sestivo tempore 

 ter. quaterve. Lanius Cinereus Anglice, a Skreek, G. 520. 



Laniorum duas alias species observavit nobilis vir D. 

 Willoughhy totius naturae diligentissimus Callentissimusq ; 

 scrutator non solum per Britanniam sed maximam partem 

 Europse. 



[Most probably the Red-backed Shrike, since he saw it in 

 summer. The two other species of Shrike observed by 

 Willughby w^ere (1) "The greater Butcher-Bird, or Matta- 

 gesse, and in the Peak of Derbyshire after the German name 

 Wierangel, or Werangel, Lanius Cinerus Major " ; and (2) 

 " The Wood-chat, Lanius Minor Cinereo-ruffus," cf. " The 

 Ornithology" (p. 21). 



The w^ord " Shreek " was appHed to the Mistle-Thrush 

 and also to the Barn-Owl in old EngHsh vocabularies of the 

 eleventh and fifteenth century. Willughby seems to infer 

 that Turner was responsible for the name Shrike, as applied 

 to the Butcher-bird, and John Ray, in "A Collection of 

 Enghsh Words " (London, 1674, 1 vol., 12mo, p. 83) confirms 

 this.] 



Milvus, the forked taiVd Kite, I. 24. tab. 11. Aid. 395. G. 

 549. Turn, a Glede, a Puttock. 



[Cf. Turner (Evans' Ed., p. 117) "milvus, in English, a 

 glede, a puttock, a kyte." The name " puttock " w^as also 

 applied by Willughby to the Buzzard (p. 70).] 



Subuteo, the ring-taiVd Kite, I. 24, tab. 9. 



[The Ringtail was the old name for the female Hen-Harrier. 

 Cf. Willughby (p. 21). Merrett seems to have added Kite by 

 mistake.] 



Buteo Triorchis, the Buzzard, Aid 367. 



[Willughby makes the curious statement (p. 21) that 

 this bird is a great destroyer of conies.] 



Peronos, the bald Buzzard, or Kite. 



[Turner applies the name " Bald-Buzzard " to the Marsh- 

 Harrier, which he says the English call " Balbushard"(c/. Evans' 



