Notes on the preceding Paper, &c. 385

daies by the heels, eaten wi^h hot Galentine, and drowned in Sack, it is permitted unto indifferent ftomacks." In the north of England the Shag is called the Crane. " Egrett," p. 341. " Egrets," fays Pennant in his Britifh Zoology, Vol. II. p. 717, " a fpecies of Heron, now fcarce known in this ifland, were in former times in prodigi- ous plenty." Skinner hazards the following etymology, " Nefcio an a noftro Eager, acer, quia fc. vchemens eft in praeda venanda." Curlcwiake, p. 341. Can this be the Curwllet or Sanderling, mentioned by Ray, as fo called about Penzans ? It is about the bignefs of the lefler Tringa, or Sandpiper, and wants the back claw, by which note it may eafily be known from all others of its kind. Ray, 8vo. p. 90. Puett, p. 341. rSee Pennant, Vol. II. p. 453. Bayninge, p. 341. No account can be found of this fowl. Shoveller, p. 341. See Muffett, ut fupra, p. 109. Shovelard, Merrett's Pinax, p. i8r. Anas Platyrynchos, five Clypeata Germanica. Aldr. Ray, p. 38. Pennant, Vol If. p. 596. Brue, p. 341, unknown. The word " Breiv" as a fowl occurs in feveral places in that moft rare old tra6r., " The Bcoke of Carvinge," Black Letter, fignat. A. 8 b. where it follows the " Curlew." Alfo fignat. B. 4. and we read fignat. I. 6. b. " Un- tache that Brew. Take a Brew and raife his legs and wings, &c. No faucebut onely fait" R-edfoankc, p. 341, or pool fnipe, Totanus, Gefn. and Gallinula Erythropus major ejufclem. Ray, ut fupra, p. 26. Pennant II. 446, Knolte, p. 341. " That is King Knout or Knute (Canutus) his bird, Cinclus Bellonii an Callidrys cinerea ?" Ray, p. 26. Pennant II. 461. Blankctt, p. 341 fpelled '* Blonkttt" p 352 unknown. Indecoke, p. 341. Probably this is a miftake in the tranfcriber for Judecokc. Cudberducc, p. 341. The Cuthbcrt-Duck, Anas SancTi Cuthberti, building only, fays Ray, 8vo. p. 96, on the Farn Ifland upon the coaft of Northumberland. Cidlver, p. 34.1 ab A. S. culjcpe. Columba. Pidgeon or Dove. Skinner. Godwlte, p. 341. Godwit, fee MufTett, p. 99, where he tells us that a " fat Godvvit is fo fine and ligljt a meat, that noblemen (yea, and merchants too by your leave) ft-ick not to buy them at four nobles a dozen. Lincolnshire afFordeth great plenty of them, el fe where they are rare in England, vvherefoever 1 have travailed." See Ray's Willughby, p. 292 The Godwit or Stone- plover. Dotterel!, p. -41. See Pennant's Zoology, Vol. II. p. 477. VOL. XIII. 3 D