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[Charleton {op. cit.) says its Cornish name was " the 

 Killegrew " (c/. Swainson, p. 74).] 



Pica Glandaria, a Jay, I. 40. tab. 17. Aid. 789. Garrulus 

 avis, G. 634. 



Pica, the Magpie, Pyot, Py-anet, I. 40. tab. 17. Pica varia 

 seu caudata, Aid. torn. I. 85. G. 628. 



[Ray (p. 84) has Pianet (c/. Swainson, p. 75).] 



Pica Marina, the Sea Pye, I. ut supra Aid. tab. 792. 794. 



[The Oyster-Catcher (c/. Turner, Evans' Edition, p. 199 ; 

 and also Swainson, p. 188). The Pica Marina of 

 Aldrovandus is the Roller (c/. also Willughby, p. 132). Ray 

 properly places the " Sea-pie " among the Waders (p. 80).] 



Vespertilio, a Bat, Flittermouse, Rearmouse, I. 52. tab. 

 20. Aid. 574. G. 604. vesperi apparet sestate. Hyeme vero 

 latet in cryptis, & rupibus. 



[Merrett, following the example of Gesner,* Belon,t 

 Aldrovandus, J Jonstonus,§ and Lovell,ll has placed the 

 Bat in his list of birds. Charleton follows Merrett, and 

 Albin as late as 1738 includes the Bat in his " History of 

 Birds " (c/. Linnaeus, Fauna Suecica, p. 7). Turner, avoiding 

 this error, makes no mention of the Bat in his " Avium . . . 

 Historia." Rearmouse = Reremouse, c/. Bartholomew {de 

 Proprietatibus Rerum, Berthelet's Edition, 1535, Book XII., 

 Fo. 38), and Shakespeare (M.N.D., II., 2.4.) :— 



" Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings 

 To make my small elves coats."] 



Loxias, the Shell-Apple, Aid. 2. 877. I. 46. sine Icone in agro 

 Warwic. in Pomariis, Mr. Willoughhy. 



[The Shell-apple = the Crossbill (c/. Carew, Fol. 25,Willughby , 

 p. 248, and Swainson, p. 67).] 



Caprimulgus, the Goat-sucker, I. 52. tab. 20. Aid. 568. G. 

 215. Hunc coepit Dominus Cole, in agro Hantoniensi, an. 

 1664. rara admodum avis. 



[It is strange that Merrett should describe the Goatsucker 

 as a rare bird. Turner also does not mention it as a British 

 bird, but relates that he made enquiries concerning its habits 

 in Switzerland.] 



* Conrad Gesner (1516—1561), " De Avibus," 1555. 



t Pierre Belon (ob. 1564), " L'Histoire des Oyseaux," 1555. 



% Ulyses Aldrovandus (1522—1605), " Ornithologiae," 1599. 



§ Johannes Jonstomis (1603—1675), " De Avibus, 1650. 



II Robert Lovell (1630—1690), " History of Animals," 1661. 



