160 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Aviary in St. James's Park (c/. Willughby, p. 327, and 

 Charleton, p. 94). Sir Thomas Browne, writing to Merrett 

 under date September 13tli, 1668, says : — " In your Pinax 

 I find Onocratalus, or Pellican, whether you meane those at 

 St. James or others brought over or such as have been taken 

 or killed heere I knowe not. I have one hangd up in my 

 howse wch was shott in a fenn ten miles of about 4 yeares 

 ago and because it was so rare some conjectured it might 

 bee one of those which belonged unto the King & fie we away " 

 (c/. Southwell, pp. 64 and 16).] 



Pehcanus sive Platsea, a Shovelard, I. 128. t. 46. ex agro 

 Lincoln. Turn, a Spoon hill. 



[The Spoonbill, cf. Turner (pp. 151 and 41), and Willughby 

 (p. 288).] 



Larus major & minor albus, the Sea Mew, I. 126. t. 46. 

 Aid. 3. 65. & simphciter. Gut, Sea Gul, or Sea Cob. 



[For " Sea Mew," as apphed to the Common Gull {L. 

 canus), cf. Swainson (p. 207). For " Sea Cob," cf. Turner 

 (p. 79).] 



Larus, quem Cornubienses indigitant, a Ganet, forsan 

 detorto nomine a Gavia vel a Gallicorum Gavian quod idem 

 sonat, est par Anseri, palmipes, rostrum rotundum cseruleum, 

 corpus grisei coloris, alte volat alausasq ; minores solas 

 cap tat. ,. 



[No doubt one of the Skuas, probably the Great Skua {cf. t 

 Willughby, p. 348). Merrett states that it catches " alausas," '' 

 by which he means pilchards, cf. p. 185, where the word is 

 spelt " alosa."] 



Puphinus Anglicus, the Puphin, G. 657. ex Insula Anglesey , & 

 Cornubia, Anas Artica Clusii, & Fraterculus Aid. 3. 230. 

 lin. 13, 14. 



[C/. Turner, p. 205, and Carew, Fol. 35.] 



Fissipides Aquaticoe. 



Ciconia, the Stork, 1. 148. t. 50. Aid. 3. 311. G. 230. raro hue 

 advolat. 



[Cf. Willughby (p. 286) for an account of the specimen 

 " taken on the coast of Norfolk " which he received from Sir 

 Thomas Browne. Writing to Merrett September 13th, 1668, 

 Browne states that he had seen two, " one in a watery marsh 

 8 miles of, another shott whose case is yet to bee seen."] 



Ardea Cineria, the Ash coloured Heron, or Hern, Hernshaw, 

 I. 148. t. 50. Aid. 3. 378. Ardea pulla sive Cinerea, G. 187. 

 \Cf. Swainson, p. 144.] 



