88 EARLY ANNALS OF ORNITHOLOGY 
The Egret of these old lists was a name taken from the 
French Azgrette, to which possibly not much meaning was 
attached by the writers, beyond that it was something of 
the Heron tribe, which claimed that name. It is likely MS. 
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cookery books based on French and Italian sources, similar 
to the Forme of Cury, were in existence, from which many 
terms and even the names of birds were borrowed, and the 
name of Egret must have been found inthem. Yet such a 
bird as the Egret may at that time have had a more northern 
