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islets of the Little Skellig and Bull Rock. The Gannet is 
in its season abundant off north-eastern Ireland,! and on the 
more open parts of the Irish Sea, but becomes scarce as it 
approaches the Solway estuary, and is not very plentiful 
generally near the Cumberland and Lancashire shores. 
ARDEA CINEREA, Linn. HERON. 
Crane. Manx, Coayr, *Coayr-ny-hastan=Crane of the eel; 
Coayr glass=Grey Crane (M. S. D.); @Goar-ny-hastan 
(Cr.). (Cf. Se. Gaelic, Corra-ghlas, Corr; Irish, Corr, Corr- 
asc, Corr-ghlas ; Welsh, Creyr glds; Breton, Kere’heiz ; cognate 
with Greek yépavos ; Latin, Grus; English, Crane, etc.). In 
Deut. xiv. 18, ‘Heron’ is Coar-ny-hastan, and Coar in 
Lev. xi. 19. 
In 1422, and again in 1577, as noted under heading of 
Peregrine Falcon, the ‘Hyron’ appears as protected by 
law; and the ‘Great Enquest,’ according to the charge to 
them recorded in the latter year, is to inquire (Clause 7) 
‘whether there be any manner of Person or Persons that 
go into the Houghes where the Hyrons do Breed, to take 
old Hyron or young, or Hyrons Eggs out of the nests, 
if there be any such Person or Persons, you shall by virtue 
of your Oath present them.’ 
Sacheverell, at the end of the seventeenth century, says: 
‘Herns too many, as being protected by the laws.’ Townley 
observes ‘ Cranes’ on the sands of Douglas Bay about one 
hundred years later, and believing them to be Grus com- 
munis, launches into much classical quotation and comment. 
1 ‘The large numbers, mainly adults, seen on the north coast during summer, 
come from Scottish breeding stations to fish. Mr. Howard Saunders has watched 
from the top of Rathlin Island a continuous stream of Gannets from Ailsa Craig 
in the early morning.’ (Ussher, Birds of Ireland, p. 156.) 
