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number of Rooks coming over, during the day, from Ireland, 
‘seemed much exhausted.’ 
The Rook is abundant in Ireland, and also of course in 
Galloway and the English counties nearest us. It now 
breeds in some of the Orkneys, but is only seen as a 
migrant in Shetland and the Outer Hebrides (except at 
Stornoway, where it has lately established itself). 
CORVUS CORAX, Linn. RAVEN. 
Manx, Feeagh (M. S. D., Cr., Manx Bible, Lev. ii. 15, ete.). (Cf. 
Se. Gaelic, Fitheach ; Irish, Keach, Fitheach, Fiach dubh.) 
Eean yooigh (Kermode). The Raven is properly Feeagh 
vooar=Great Crow, Feeagh including also the Greyback 
and Rook. Various place-names are derived from it. Edd 
Feeagh vooar= Raven’s nest; Glion Feeagh (East Baldwin) = 
Raven’s (or perhaps Crow’s) Glen; Ballaveeagh (Marown) 
where, however, there is no suitable site for a nesting place, 
and which may be called after a family which bore the name. 
For in Man, as elsewhere, Feeagh became a surname (pro- 
bably first what we now call a ‘Christian name’), and the 
surname Feeagh or MacFeeagh in modern times has been 
invariably translated into the still common Crowe. On 
Manx inscribed crosses of the Norse period (eleventh to 
thirteenth centuries) we find in runes the personal name FIAK 
(Braddan) and its compound Uraik (Andreas), and UFAAK, 
z.e. O’F1acu (Braddan), and (?)—Frrak (Braddan), the former 
part of the name being in this case damaged and uncertain 
(MALFEEAK and THURFEEAK suggested).!_ Perhaps there is a 
reminiscence of the Raven in the Scandinavian name Ramsey 
(HRAFNSEY) ; perhaps, as Mr. Kermode suggests, it records 
some Norseman who was named from the bird. 
Already grotesquely figured on a cross at Andreas of the 
time of the Norse dominion, as seated on’ the shoulder of 
1 Kermode, Manx Crosses, p. 39, etc. Cf, Moore, Mana Names, ed. 2, p. 22. 
