116 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Edition, p. 33). Merrett here again wrongly introduces the 

 word Kite.] 



Noctua, the Night, or little grey Owl, I. 48. tab. 18. Aid. 

 torn. 1. 544. Bubo Turn, a like Fowl. 



[Turner says " bubo, in English alyke foule " (p. 47). 

 It is difficult to determine what Owl Merrett here refers to. 

 Can it be the Little Owl ? The Short-eared Owl is called to 

 this day the " grey yogle " in the Shetlands (c/. Swainson, 

 p. 129). It is not, however, a night Owl. Charleton in 

 his "Onomasticon Zoicon " (1668, p. 70) calls "Noctua" 

 " the Common Grey Owl."] 



Ulula, the white hooping Owl, or Owlet, or Howlet, I. tab. 19. 

 Aid. 538. G. 700. 



[Ulula = the Barn-OwL] 



Strix, the Screech, or Screechijig Owl, I. tab. 19. Aid. 563. 



[The Screech Owl = the Tawny Owl (c/. Swainson, p. 129.)] 



Corvus, the Raven, I. 38. tab. 16, Aid. 694. in ulmetis juxta- 

 sedes nobilium, G. 294. 



Corvus, I. 38. tab. 16. our common or Carrion Crow, G. 282. 

 Cornix nigra. Aid. 736. & Cornix simpliciter Turn. 



Cornix frugilega, spermologus, a Rook, I. 40. tab. 17. Aid. 

 tom. 1. 753. 



Cornix aquat. Hanc videt Turn, apud Morpetenses in ripis 

 fluminum, G. 293. suspicor esse, the mur Cornubiensium. 



[This is the Water- Ouzel, or Dipper. Merrett has been 

 misled by Turner's use of the Northumbrian name 

 " Watercraw " (Evans' Edition, p. 23), and has placed it 

 among the Corvidce. He has further confused the matter by 

 suspecting it to be the Cornish " Mur." The word " murre " 

 is used in Cornwall to designate the Razor-Bill, called also 

 the Sea-Crow (c/. Swainson, p. 217).] 



Cornix Cinerea, the Royston Crow, I. ubi supra, Aid. 755. 



[Formerly also spelt Roiston Crow (c/. Ray, op. cit., p. 83, 

 and Cotgrave's Dictionary). Willughby (p. 22) says : 

 " Common in Cambridgeshire about Newmarket and 

 Royston."] 



[Page 172.] Graculus vel Monedula, a Jackdaw, a Chough, 

 Turn, a Caddo, a Ka, I. 38. tab. 16. Aid. 771. G. 467. 



[Jackdaws were sometimes called Choughs (c/. Harting's 

 Ornithology of Shakespeare, p. 119).] 



Coracias Arist. the Cornish Chough, I. 38. tab. 16. Aid. 

 768. In omnibus oris maritimis a Cornubia ad Doroberniam. 



