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Lost British Birds . 
the “ Platea or Shovelard” of Sir Thomas Browne was the 
shoveller duck. This point has now been cleared up, and Mr. 
J. E. Harting has found accounts in old records of breeding- 
places of the spoonbill in other parts of England. In the 
Zoologist , 1877, p. 425, he tells us of one which existed in 
the woods at East Dean, near Chichester, in 1570. He 
made the still more interesting discovery that spoonbills 
had a breeding-place, or heronry, in the Bishop of London’s 
park, or grounds, at Fulham. It appears that in the 14th 
year of the reign of Henry YIII., the bishop brought an 
action of trespass against a grazier for taking herons and 
spoonbills from the trees, which had been reserved. An 
account of the trial of the case, in which the grazier was 
happily worsted, is given in the Zoologist, 1886, p. 81. 
Harting adds that Norden, who himself lived at Fulham, 
tells us in his Speculum Britannise (1593), that “ the name 
of the place was anciently written Fullenham, orFullonham, 
which (as Master Camden taketh it) signifyeth volucrum 
clomus, the habitacle of birdes, or the place of fowles, Fullon 
and Fug las in the Saxon toong do sign! fie fowles, and ham 
or hame as much as home in our toong.” 
Fulham keeps its name, also its Bishop’s Palace, but is no 
longer the “habitacle of birdes.” 
III. Capercaillie —Tetrao urog alius . This noble bird 
of the pines became totally extinct in Scotland as long ago 
as 1760, and in Ireland its final extinction occurred about 
the same time. There is, however, evidence to show that 
for a century and a half before that date the bird was very 
scarce in Scotland; and that, on account of its rarity and 
the esteem it was held in for the table, it was very much 
sought after. The large male bird, in his magnificent black 
and green glossed plumage, formed indeed a suitable present 
to princes and nobles in former days. Its departure was 
thus hastened; but Mr. Harvie-Brown attributes its ex¬ 
tinction to the destruction of great forests by fire, the 
cutting down of the same by man as late as the days of 
