l. 540. Hernshaw or Common Heron, _Ardea cinerea_. Y. ii. 537 (nine other varieties). l. 541. Plover, the Great (Norfolk Plover and Stone Curlew), _Ædicnemus crepitans_, Y. ii. 465 (10 other varieties). l. 541. Curlew the Common, _Numenius arquata_, Y. ii. 610 (there are other varieties). l. 542. Bustard, the Great, _Otis tarda_, Y. ii. 428; the Little (rare here) ii. 452. l. 542. Shoveler (blue-winged, or Broad-Bill), _Anas clypeata_, Y. iii. 247. Snipe, the Common, _Scolopax gallinago_, Y. iii. 38 (11 other sorts). l. 543. Woodcock, _Scolopax rusticola_, Y. iii. 1. l. 543. Lapwing or Peewit, _Vanellus cristatus_, ii. 515. l. 543. The Martin, or House Martin, _Hirundo urbica_, Y. ii. 255; the Sand or Bank Martin, _Hirundo riparia_, ii. 261. l. 544. Quail, the Common, _Coturnix vulgaris_, Y. ii. 413. l. 546. On Fish wholesome or not, see Bullein, fol. lxxxiij., and on Meats, fol. 82. l. 548. Torrentille: Mr Skeat suggests ‘? Torrent-eel.’ Though the spelling of Randle Holme’s A _Sandile_ or a _Sandeele_ (Bk. II., p. 333), and Aldrovandi’s (p. 252 h.) “De _Sandilz_ Anglorum” may help this, yet, as Dr Günther says, eels have nothing to do with torrents. _Torrentille_ may be the Italian _Tarentella_: see note on Torrentyne, l. 835 below. l. 555. _Ling._ There shall be stryken of every Saltfische called a Lyng Fische vj Stroks after iij Strooks in a Side. _Percy Household Book_, p. 135. l. 558. _Stockfish._ Vocatur autem ‘Stockfisch’ à trunco, cui hic piscis aridus tundendus imponitur. ariditate enim ita riget, ut nisi præmaceratus aqua, aut prætunsus, coqui non possit. _Gesner_, p. 219. ‘_Ie te frotteray à double carillon._ I will beat thee like a _stockfish_, I will swinge thee while I may stand ouer thee.’ Cotgrave. ‘The tenne chapitule’ of ‘The Libelle of Englysch Polycye’ is headed ‘Of the coundius _stokfysshe_ of Yselonde,’ &c., &c., and begins Of Yseland to wryte is lytille nede, Save of _stockfische_. A. Borde, in his Introduction to Knowledge, under Islond, says, And I was borne in Islond, as brute as a beest; Whan I ete candels ends I am at a feest; Talow and raw _stockefysh_ I do loue to ete, In my countrey it is right good meate. ... In stede of bread they do eate _stocfyshe_, and they wyll eate rawe fyshe & fleshe; they be beastly creatures, vnmannered and vntaughte. The people be good fyshers; muche of theyr fishe they do barter with English men for mele, lases, a{n}d shoes & other pelfery. (See also under Denmarke.) l. 559. _Mackerel._ See Muffett’s comment on them, and the English and French ways of cooking them, p. 157. l. 569. Onions. Walnuts be hurtfull to the Memory, and so are _Onyons_, because they annoy the Eyes with dazeling dimnesse through a hoate vapour. T. Newton, _Touchstone_, ed. 1581, fol. 125 b. l. 572. A _Rochet_ or _Rotbart_ is a red kind of _Gurnard_, and is so called in the South parts of England; and in the East parts it is called a _Curre_, and a _Golden polle_. R. Holme.