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Columb. Gyratrices, Tumblers, Omnes hse Columbse in 

 Columbariis aluntur praeterq ; has a curiosis educantur 

 Turcicse, Barbaricae, the Finikiii, Cornew, Bastard hill, Light 

 H or smart. Dragoon. 



Turtur, the Turtle Dove, I. 88. tab. 32. Aid. 2. 509. G. 277. 



Palumbus major torquatus, a Ring Dove, or Quist, Aid. 2. 

 4. 7. In sylvis, Turn, a Cowshot, a ringed Dove. 



Oenas sen vinago, a Stock-Dove, or Wood-Pidgeon, Aid. 2. 

 499. I. 88. tab. 32. 



Passer domesticus, the House-Sparrow, I. 92. tab. 34. G. 581. 

 Aid. 2. 534. idem quandoq ; albus invenitur, I. ibid. Aid. 

 556. 



Passer pusillus in Juglandibus degens, I. 96. sine Icone, 

 Aid. 2. 563. 



[A variety of Sparrow, c/. Belon (pp. 363 and 364), who terms 

 this bird " Moineau de Noyer," or " Friquet." Charleton 

 (p. 78) calls it the " Wall-nut Sparrow."] 



Junco, the Reed Sparrow, I. 166. tab. 53. Hujus datur 

 minor species in Arundinetis prope Kingstoniam. 

 [The Reed-Bunting, c/. Turner (p. 103).] 

 Granivarce Canorce. 



Carduehs, a Gold-finch, I. 69. tab. 36. Aid. 2. 801. G. 215. 

 Aurivittis Turn. 



Calandra Aid. 2. 847. est Alaudse persimilis sed ipsa paulo 

 major, Ramis arborum insidet an Passer torquatus G. a Bunting. 



\Cf. Willughby (p. 208), and Belon (p. 271). Aldrovandus 

 says it is called the " Challander " in England. Emberiza 

 Callandra is the name applied to the Corn Bunting by 

 Linnaeus, cf. Syst. Nat., Ed. X., 1758.] 



Coccothraustes, I. 98. tab. 37. Coccothraustes mas Aid. 

 2. 846. 



[The Hawfinch. Though Merrett does not give the English 

 name the figure in Aldrovandus is unmistakable {cf. Belon, 

 p. 374).] 



Fringilla, the Common, or Chaffinch, 1. ib. Aid [Page 176.] 

 2. 817. G. 342. Turn, a Sheld apl. a Spink. 



Monti-fringilla, the Bramble, or Br ambling, I. 96. tab. 33. 

 Aid. 2. 822. G. 343. 



[P. 176.] 



[The derivation of the word Brambling is obscure. 

 Charleton's attempt is : " The Brambling, or Brier-finch 

 {utpote rubris scepe insidens, eorumg' jructibus victitans) "; 

 " rubris " := on brambles.] 



