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Brent Goose comes from the Welsh, brenig — a limpet. The

actual word “ Bird ” was formerly Brid or Bryd, which was derived

from the Anglo-Saxon bredan, to breed. The term, we are told by

Mr. Swann, was properly applicable to the young only, and seems

synonymous with brood. (A. Sax., brod ), the proper term for the

adult bird being fowl. (A. Sax. fugol). According to Poole, brid

still survives in Staffordshire. Several blank pages are provided as

memoranda for additional names for the reader’s own notes.



MEMBERS OUGHT TO WRITE MORE

FOR THE MAGAZINE.


If the members wish me to continue the work of editing our

Magazine, I must ask them to one and all do their best to provide

me with more articles, notes, and photographs. I do the work

gratuitously, and it is by no means light, taking up a great part of

my time ; and I am never idle. I am moving to a new home (in

Herefordshire) in the autumn, which change will find me with little

leisure time. I sent a letter to every member when I first took up

the work, begging for articles and notes on birds, and I may perhaps

he allowed to add, charging nothing for at least 400 stamps. To

have to continually urge members to write is most irksome to me,

and must be (if they pay any attention) most tiresome to them : but

what is still more so to an editor is that he has to pad and write

notes which are simply forced, and therefore cannot be really good.


If members think I have nothing else to do they are very

much mistaken. There are a few who are always helping, and the

thanks of the Society are due to them : but there are surely more

who could write and do not. HUBERT D. ASTLEY.



THE ILLUSTRATION FUND.


If members will each according to their means, subscribe to

the illustration fund, we can probably issue a coloured plate once a

month. If every member would give half-a-crown a year, it would

be something. The coloured plates are extremely expensive. Let



