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Felofor is wrongly called fieldfare by Sweet, Hall and 

 Newton in the Diet, of Birds. Feldefare, appearing as 

 feldeware, is the OE. word for fieldfare. The derivation of 

 felofor is uncertain, although Newton says it = fallow- 

 farer, <^fealo, fallow -V far an, to fare. 



Shm. 2g : onocratalum, raredumlae i/«/ felofor; WW. 287. 2: torax, feol- 

 ufor ; 469. 22 : porfyrio, fealfor ; Ep. 807 : ~ feolofor ; Er. 807 : porfirio, fel- 

 usor ; WW. 259. 5 : porphyria, fealuor ; Cp. O. 175 ; onocratallus, felufer ; 

 Cp. P. 517 : porfyrio ~ ; T. 215 : torax, felofeartS : Ep. 1027 : ~ felofearth ; 

 Er. 1027: ~ felufrech. 



Sub. Ord. Ciconii. Storks. 



Gen. Ciconia. True Storks. 



XLVII. store. Stork : no doubt the common white 

 stork of Europe {ciconia ciconia), which is a frequent visitor 

 to England. Only about thirteen records exist of the 

 presence of the black stork on the island. Giraldus Cam- 

 brensis, who visited Ireland in 1185, says, in his Topo- 

 graphia Hibernica, that ' Storks (ciconid) are very rare 

 throughout the whole island, and they are black [illce 

 nigrce).' From this one might infer that the black stork 

 was not unknown in England at that time. M.^. stork ; 

 Icel. storki; OHG. stork ; G. storch. 



WW. 131. 25, 259. 13, 285. 3, 364. 13, Cp. C. 405, Er. 259, ZdA. 240. 19, &. 

 Gr. 25. 6, S.. Gl. ■yyi- 4: ciconia, store ; Ld. 206 : ~ storhc ; M. H. i. 404. 25, 

 Jer. 8. 7 : store and swalewe heoldon tSone timan heora toeymes. 



Ord. Gruiformes. Crane-like Birds. 

 Sub. Ord. Grues. True Cranes. 



XLVIII. I. cran. Crane. The name belonged origi- 

 nally to the common crane {grus grus), which, until the 

 seventeenth century, bred abundantly in the fen countries 

 of Great Britain, and was greatly prized as food. Now it 

 is an 'accidental visitor. 



WW. 132. 21, 259. 14. 285. 9, 413. 32, M. Gl. 307. 3, M. Gr. 14. 3 : grus, 

 cran ; ZdA. 240. 18 : crus, eran. 



For instances of cran in local names, see Cod. Dip. 6. 274. 



