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3. hafocfugel. Hawk. 



£cg. C. 38 : ?Seah hafocfugel abite, etiamse accipUer ea momorderit. 



4. heoroswealwe. Used as an epithet of hafoc. 



Fates of Mm 86 : sum sceal wildne fugel wloncne atemian heafoc on 

 honda, otStSaet seo heoroswealwe wynsum weorSetS. 



5. mushafoc. Lit. 'mouse-hawk'; <; mils, mouse + 

 hafoc, hawk ; probably so called because of its feeding on 

 mice. It seems impossible to determine what species of 

 hawk bore this name in OE. The name now belongs to 

 the rough-legged buzzard {archibuteo lagopus), an irregular 

 winter visitant to England. 



WW. 285. 6: saricaricis, mushafoc ; ZdA. 240. 17: siracaricis, ~ ; WW. 

 259. 10 : saricaricis, mushafuc ; Cf. S. 438 : scoricarius, mushabuc ; M. Gl. 

 307. note : scuricaricus, mushauac. 



6. bleripittel. Mouse-hawk ; glossed the same as mus- 

 hafoc. 



WW. 132. 38 : scoricarius, bleripittel ; 287. 8 : soricarius, bleria pyttel. 



7. haeswalwe. Hawk. Although Sweet defines this 

 word as sea swallow, i. e. the tern, the L. gloss astur (It. 

 astore), properly goshawk, proves that it is a species of 

 hawk. For an instance of swealwe in a compound word, 

 meaning hawk, see heoroswealwe, used synonymously with 

 hafoc. 



Cp. A. 864 : astur, haesualwe. 



Sub. F. Buteoninffi. Buzzards. 

 Gen. Buteo. True Buzzards. 



XXXIV. tysca. Buzzard ; probably common buzzard 

 {buteo buteo). 



WW. 195. 4, 259. 12 : bizus, tysca. 



Sub. F. Aquilinae. Eagles. 



XXXV. I. earn. The original name of the eagle, now 

 chiefly poetical or dialectal. ME. ern, erne; OHG. arn; 

 IceLorn; also, without the formative -«.• OHG. aro; G. 



