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kill it more mercifully than by drowning, dropped it out of my 

 window, which was at least three stories up — it might have been four. 

 It fell on the hard gravel of the quadrangle path, but was not even 

 stunned, running about — perhaps in a rather confused way — until 

 one of the college servant boys saw and crushed it. I have also 

 seen in Calcutta a Gecko Lizard fall down the well of a staircase 

 from at least three stories up, landing on a stone pavement with a 

 smack, and yet run off all right. Perhaps the small size of these 

 creatures accounts for their endurance ? — F. Finn. 



A VE S. 



Green Sandpiper (Totanus ochropus) in Stour Valley. — On 



January 12th, 1915, Mr. Eichardson, of Flatford, Suffolk, shot, out 

 of a flock of small waders which were feeding in the flooded meadows 

 in the valley of the Eiver Stour, a bird he did not recognize. It was 

 sent to me for identification, and I saw it was a specimen of the 

 Green Sandpiper, and as Christy (' Birds of Essex ') says it has not 

 been found in Essex during January, it may be worth while to record 

 it. The Eiver Stour divides Essex from Suffolk, and a bird shot in 

 the meadows near this river may be considered to belong to either 

 county. — Heney Lavee (Colchester). 



The Meaning of "Katones." — The 'Itinerarium Wilhelmi Botoner,' 

 commonly called " William of Worcester," was written about the 

 end of the fifteenth century, and contains an early mention of 

 St. Tudwal's Island and its birds. Writing in 1478, he gives some 

 account of the islands off the Welsh coast. After mentioning 

 Bardsey (" Berdesey," it is spelt; and this suggests that it simply 

 means bird-island, and has nothing to do with bards) and its twenty 

 thousand saints, and " Mewys-island " (still called Gull Islands, for 

 there are two), he goes on : — " Insula Lastydenale in Wallia sequitur 

 proxima insulse de Meulx, ex parte orientali de Meulx-iland, . . . et 

 non est populata nisi silvestres herbas, aves vocat mewys, kermerertes, 

 et katones, et muscse id est mowses." The book is supposed to be 

 written in Latin, but French and English words are introduced 

 freely. Moreover, the author evidently wrote down place-names and 

 others from ear, and often got them more or less wrong, so that it is 

 not always easy to identify islands. Some help can be had from 

 Camden's maps, though both authors use names not in use now. 

 " Lastydenale " would have been a greater difficulty had not the 

 author repeated it further on, and then spelt it Lastydewale. It then 

 became quite clear that he meant St. Tudwal's (pronounced Tydwal's), 



