SOME EARLY BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS. 161 



Ardea alba, G. I. 152. t. 5L Aid. 390. G. 189, a Mire 

 Drumhle. 



[This may either mean a white (albino) Heron, or the 

 Spoonbill, which Merrett has already mentioned. (C/. 

 Turner, p. 39.) Merrett gives it the name " Mire Drumble," 

 which was in the form of Mire Drum, or Mire Drumble, com- 

 monly apphed to the Bittern (c/. Willughby, p. 25, and 

 Century Diet., Vol. V.). Charleton, apparently following 

 Merrett, calls the Spoonbill a " Mire-drumbel."] 



Ardea stellaris, the Bittourn, I. ib. Aid. 405. G. 100. 



[Bittern, c/. Turner (p. 41), and Willughby (p. 25), where 

 we are told that its common name was " Night-Raven." (C/. 

 Swainson, p. 146.)] 



[p. 182] Ardea minor, I. tab. 56. quam ad me transmisit Ds. 

 Jenner, ex agro Wiltoniensi. 



[Possibly the Little Bittern.] 



Avis pugnax, I. 154. t. 52. a Rough, est tertia in Tab. 



Avis pugnax, quarta in dicta Tab. a Reev. utrseq ; ex agro 

 Lincoln, est fsemina superioris. 



Hgemantopus mas & fsem. Red shanks, I. 154. t. 52. 



Arquata, seu numenius, the Curliew, Aid. 3. 426. I. 152. 

 t. 51. G 197. 



Arquata congener, a Stone Curliew, huic rostrum breve, 

 accipitrinum, pennae milvi, Phasiano par magnitudine, 

 Dilicatissimae avis ex agro Hantoniensi, Ds. Hutchinson 

 Ornithopola Londinensis. 



[The Stone-Curlew was found in Hampshire (c/. Gilbert 

 White, XVth letter to Pennant), and still breeds in that 

 county.)] 



Vannellus, the Lapwing, bastard Plover, or Pewit, insula 

 qusedam ab iis nomen fortitur in Essexia : Hue enim migrant 

 prsecise ad diem Divo Georgio sacrum, vide Fuller, 318. 

 I. 166. t. 53. Aid. 3. 526. G 692. 



\Cf. Turner (pp. 77 and 175). For accounts of this migra- 

 tion of the Pewet Gull on St. George's Day to the promontory 

 of the Ness, or Naze, in Essex, cf. Charlton (p. 108), and Fuller, 

 " Worthies of England " (Vol. 1, p. 494) :— 



" There is an island of some two hundred acres, near Har- 

 wich, in the parish of Little Oakley, in the Manor of Matthew 

 Gilby, esquire, called the Puet island, from Puets [Fuller was, 

 of course, referring to the Black-headed, or Pewet Gull, Larus 

 ridihundus^ in effect the sole inhabitants thereof. Some 

 affirm them called in Latin Upupce, whilst others maintain 



