SOME EARLY BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS. 163 



audivi, & an sit eadem cum Ortygometra superius niemorata 

 nescio, suspicor tamen esse Turn, me talem vidisse & audivisse 

 ad Wheatley quinq ; Oxonio Milliaribus memini. 



[Also on p. 73 as Ralla — a Daker Hen. The Landrail, or 

 Corncrake (c/. Turner, p. 71, and Willugliby, p. 316). For 

 Daker Hen, c/. Swainson (p. 177). It is still called the 

 " Daker Hen " in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.] 



Tres sequentes aves cum nominibus & breviusculis des- 

 criptionibus mihi communicavit Ds. Hutchinson Ornithopola 

 Lond. quas se vidisse ait in agro Lincoln. 



[" Ornithopola," = a dealer in birds.] 



Non est avis aquatica querquedula paulo minor Rostrum 

 ei rotundum, tenue & argastum, superius paululum incur- 

 vatum, toto ventre albes- [Page 184.] cit, dorsum nigrum, 

 caput cristatum unde forsan ei nomen, sc. a monacha velata. 



[" Non est," a misprint for " Nun est," as it appears in the 

 1666 edition. Merrett here, no doubt, refers to the Smew 

 (c/. Ray, CoUectio7i of English Words, p. 95). It is called the 

 Nun to this day (c/. YarreJl, Vol. IV., p. 499 ; Swainson, 

 p. 165).] 



Crickaleel, est priori sequalis, Cserulea in alarum supernis, 

 caput collumq ; maculata, ad ingluviem coloris grisei inde 

 deorsum albescit vel contra quoad ventris colorem. 



[This may be the Garganey. " Crickaleel " may be onomato- 

 paeic. The Garganey is known as the " Cricket Teal," cf. 

 Swainson (p. 158), who states that from its cry it is known as 

 Cric Cric (Jura), Criquet (Savoy), Kriechentlein (Germany). 

 Sir T. Browne says : — " We have a kind of teale which some 

 fowlers call Crackling Teale" {cf. Southwell, p. 83).] 



Gossander, palmipes & cristata ventre aureo, rostro longo 

 & angusto, caro flavescit & cocta tota facessit in oleum, non 

 est edulis, ex agro Lincoln, videtur esse Puphini species. 



[Sir Thomas Browne's comment on this note is: — "Gossander 

 videtur esse puphini species — worthy Sr that which we call 

 a gossander & is no rare foule among us is a large well colourd 

 & marked diving fowle most answering the Merganser. It 

 may bee like the pufiin in fattnesse and Ranknesse butt no 

 foule is I think like the puffin differenced from all others by a 

 peculiar kind of bill " (Letter to Merrett, December 29th, 

 1668 ; Southwell, p. 72).] 



