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Oenanthe, the Wheat ear, or White tail, I. 122. [Page 179.] 

 t. 45. Aid. 2. 763. G. 567. in agro Warwicensi Fallow Smiters. 



[The Wheatear as Cseruleo (p. 177). Fallow Smiters — 

 Swainson (p. 9) has Fallow Smich ; and in Wiltshire it is 

 known as the Horse Smatch, or Snatcher (A. C. Smith, Birds 

 of Wilts). Smiter possibly from Smit, SW. Smet, grease or 

 fat.] 



Luscinia, Lusciniola, the Nightingale, I. ib. Aid. 2. 777. G. 

 532. 



Morinellus, the Dotterel, Aid. 3. 540. G. 554. in agro Lincoln- 

 iensi certo anni tempore capitur jocose, vide Camden. 



[The account of the taking of this bird given by Camden 

 (who apparently derived it from Caius, cf. Evans' Turner, 

 p. 203), is as follows : — 



" Dotterells, so named from their dotish foolishnesse, which 

 being a kind of birds as it were of an apish kind, ready to 

 imitate what they see done, are caught by candle light accord- 

 ing to foulers gesture : if he puts forth an arme, they also 

 stretch out a wing : sets he forward his legge, or holdeth up 

 his head, they likewise doe their : in brief e, whatever the 

 fouler doth, the same also doth this foolish bird, untill it be 

 hidden within the net " (Camden, Philemon Holland's edition, 

 1610 (p. 543) ; cf. also Willughby (pp. 309, 310).] 



Aquaticce Palmipides. 



Cygnus, the Swan, I. 136. t. 48. Aid. 3. 8. G. 321. 



Anser Domesticus, the Goose, mas vocatur, the Gander, 

 I. 136, t. 48. Aid. 3. 102. G. 125. 



Chenalopex, vulpanser, a Bergayider, nusquam alias vidi 

 nisi in Thamesi fluvio aiunt tamen esse frequentem in insula 

 Tenia (Thanet.) vocata & illic in scrobibus cuniculorum 

 nidulari, Turn. 



[The Shelldrake. Turner (p. 25) says " our people nowadays 

 name it Bergander " {i.e.. Burrow-gander). Caius, however, 

 suggests quite another derivation for Berg, which he thinks 

 may be from Brend, or Bernd, meaning variegated [cf. Evans' 

 Turner, p. 195). Ray, apparently using the same idea, calls 

 the Goosander, a Bergander (p. 94).] 



Anser ferus, I. 136. t. 48. Aid. 3. 150. G. 140. 



Capricalca, Capricalze Scotis, Aid. 3. 164. I. 136. t. 48. 

 G. 146. 



[The Capercailzie, also Urogallus (p. 173).] 



Anseris speciem vidi in Cimelio Tradescanti sub nomine 

 squeed una cum Ovo ex Insula Scotica Bass dicta, in qua 



