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of a bird of prey, and Cotgrave gives aire as “an airie or 
nest of hawkes.” Dyche and Pardon have “eyrie or 
ayrie, among falconers the place or nest where hawks 
sit and hatch and feed their young.” The. spelling 
eyrie or eyrey, used by many authors, seems to be in- 
correct. Murray says it was first used by Spelman 
(1664) who was under the misapprehension that the 
derivation was Saxon, from egg; Willughby and Ray 
also spell it eyrie, Halliwell and Wright think eyrey is 
the right form, derived from ey, Mid.-Eng. for egg. The 
word occurs in most of our early authors: Shakespeare 
has ayerie, but the word is printed aery and aiery by most 
editors; Milton has eyrie; Ben Jonson uses avery, 
but applies it to a brood of kestrels; Browne (‘ Britan. 
Past.”) spells it eyerte, and Massinger (‘‘ Maid of Honour,” 
I, 2.) has :— 
One airy, with proportion ne’er discloses 
The eagle and the wren. 
African Crowned Crane. An example obtained in Ayrshire in 
1871 is thought to have escaped from captivity. 
ArricAN Herron. The PURPLE HERON is so-called by 
Latham, Lewin, Montagu, etc. It is a migratory species 
occurring in Africa, hence the name. 
ArmsA Cock or Arisa Parrot. Local Scots names for the 
PUFFIN ; also used in Antrim (Swainson). 
Auamontr: The STORM-PETREL. (Orkneys.) The Orcadian 
name “Alamonti” is given by Low, but Macgillivray 
spells it Alamowti, and this form wax sent me by Mr. R. 
Godfrey as a Shetland name; it is also rendered Allamotti ; 
Jamison thinks it is of Italian extraction from ala, a wing 
and monte, to mount. 
AuarcH DoF. A Welsh name for the MUTE SWAN;; lit. 
“tame swan.” 
ALARCH GWYLLT. A Welsh name for the WHOOPER SWAN ; 
lit. “‘ wild swan.” 
ALDROVANDINE OWLET. Macgillivray’s name for the SCOPS 
OWL. 
ALEXANDRINE PLOVER: The RINGED PLOVER. 
ALGERIAN RED-NECKED NIGHTJAR [No. 204]. A bird 
obtained near Newcastle in 1856 and recorded in most 
subsequent authors as the “ Red-necked Nightjar,” is 
considered by Hartert to belong to the “desert” form 
inhabiting Algeria and Tunisia, and not to the western or 
Spanish form; hence the change of name. 
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