14 NOTES ON CERTAIN BIRDS 



mustela fusca & mustela variegata^^ the graye dunne & 

 the variegated or partie coloured wesell so called from 

 the resemblance it beareth vnto a wesell in the head. 



[Fol. 12.*] many sorts of wild ducks^^ wch passe under 

 names well knowne unto the fowlers though of no great 

 signification as smee [wige struck out] widgeon Arts 

 ankers noblets. 



the most remarkable are Anas platyrinchos [sic] a 

 remarkably broad bild duck. 



And the sea phaysant holding some resemblance unto 

 that bird [in the tayle crossed out] in some fethers in the 

 tayle. 



Teale Querquedula. wherein scarce any place more 

 abounding, the condition of the country & the very 

 many decoys [mo struck out] especially between Nor- 

 wich and the sea making this place very much to 

 abound in wild fowle. 



* Fols. 10 and li are (lo written on both sides) on the " Ostridge," 

 vide Wilkin, Vol. 4, p. 337-9. The paper is a different size, l\\ by 1\, 

 and the article is evidently bound out of place. 



^ The Smew, male and female, or either in the immature plumage are 

 here referred to. 



'^ The local names of the various Ducks are simply legion and differ 

 both in time and place, not to mention the confusion occasioned by sex 

 and season when these birds were not so well understood as at 

 present. Many such names are quite lost, as "Ankers" and "Noblets," 

 but the following are a few examples : Adult Smew, White Nun ; female or 

 immature Smew, Wesel Coot ; the Wigeon was known as the Smee, 

 Whewer, or Whim ; the Tufted Duck, Arts or Arps ; the Gadwall, Grey 

 Duck or Rodge; the Pochard, Dunbird ; the Shoveller, Beck or Kert- 

 lutock (Hunt), Pintail, Sea Pheasant or Cracker ; Long-tailed Duck, 

 Mealy Bird ; Golden Eye, Morillon or Rattle-wing ; Scaup, Grey-back, 

 and on Breydon White-nosed Day Fowl ; Scoter, Whilk ; Velvet Scoter, 

 Double Scoter (Hunt) ; Teal, Crick ; Garganey, Summer Teal, Pied 

 Wigeon, Cricket Teal ; other names might be mentioned, and some will be 

 found in the notes which will follow. Anas platyrhincus here mentioned 

 is the Shoveller. It may seem strange that the abundance of Teal should 

 in any way be attributed to the number of Decoys, but such was really the 



