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Ticehurst, as well as with the Swedish “spof” (a Curlew), 
was provisionally assigned to the Whimbrel by my father as 
long ago as 1846.* The fact that ‘“‘spd6i” is the common 
name of the Whimbrel in Iceland, as pointed out by Prof. 
Newton in “Iceland, Its Scenes and Sagas’”’+ further 
confirms his identification. 
Another old English appellation for the Whimbrel, 
perhaps chiefly a book name, was Brue or Brewe, which was 
general in the seventeenth century.t This name does not 
come into the le Straunge or any other Norfolk accounts, and 
is certainly not used in Norfolk, where at the present day the 
Whimbrel is commonly termed a May-bird. Stone-Curlews 
are not mentioned, nor do we get the names Yarwhelp, 
Yelper or Barker, which might be looked for in an east 
coast list of birds. Neither is there any bird’s name which 
can be assigned to the Glossy Ibis, a species supposed, 
though upon very slender foundation,§ to have been once 
abundant enough in the Wash to be called the Black Curlew. 
There are two entries of Dotterel, which may be taken 
as referring to Charadrius morinellus : ‘1520 to Wat Dockyng 
for iij dotterells iij*” (p. 443), and again “ [April 28th, 1527] 
It™ to Blogge of Walsyngham for xxiv dotterelles ii’.” 
Walsingham is about four miles from the sea, and sixteen 
from Hunstanton, quite a likely place for these birds. 
Ten Dotterel, which were killed between April 29th and 
May 9th, 1548, were at that time of the year most likely to 
have been C. morinellus. 
On the other hand, two more entries under the same 
name—in one of which forty-eight Dotterel with Godwits, and 
in the other six Dotterel with Stints, are brought in—probably 
mean the Ringed Plover, while the se- or sea-dotterel, which 
is occasionally distinguished in the Accounts, may very likely 
have been the Turnstone. 
The Oystercatcher would naturally not be entered under 
that designation, which is as modern as it is inappropriate. 
Under its older and more sensible name of Sea-pie, or as 
* « Zoologist,’’ Vol. LV., p. 1323, and again, 3rd series, II., p. 289. 
+ Orm.: 15. 
t Ante, p. 89. 
§ See ‘‘ British Birds,’’ Mag., V., p. 307. 
