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Mrs. Herbert Jones tells me (by letter) that there was a spring in 
Wormegay, just out of Setch (spelt Setchy on the Ordnance Map), 
south of Lynn, to which people used to go some years ago, as they 
did to Eeffley, to drink the water; and she mentions the “tradition 
about the Walsingham Wishing Wells, that only those who, when 
lying dow]i between them, could toucli the waters of each well with 
the fingers of their outstretched hands, could get their Avish.” 
Professor T. Eupert Jones has written to inform me that the 
names “ ‘Avishing Avell’ and ‘Avish Avell’ are recognized as containing 
the ancient British or Celtic Avord for water (perhaps spring) and 
that, as these AA^ells retain the Celtic name, they Avere probably 
jve-histon'c, andAvere also at places of old occupation; and probably 
their neighbourhood Avould be found, on search, to abound Avith 
Hint-implements. At all events those old springs knoAvn in many 
parts of the country as wish-ivells thus bear evidence of Celtic or 
ancient British occupation, — the origin of the word is Avorth 
remembering (AAUsh-Avater 
XIL 
A LIST OF BIEDS THAT HAVE OCCUEEED IH 
GEEAT BEITAIH, IN WHOSE NEST . 
THE EGG OF THE CHCKOW HAS BEEN FOUND. 
Compiled by Edward Bidavell. 
Read 2jth March, 1883. 
Although in the tAvo most recently published standard Avorks on 
Ornithology lists of the foster-parents of the Common CuckoAV 
( Guculus canorus ) have been given, I am able still further to 
augment the number. In the ‘ Birds of Europe,’ by II. E. Dresser, 
the list includes seventy-six species ; to this Professor NcAvton, in 
the fourth edition of Yarrcll’s ‘ British Birds,’ adds three species, — 
* Tlie derivation Avould bo the same as that of Wash, Ouse, &c. 
