[290]Passed in the twenty-fourth year of Henry VIII., 1532. _Statutes of the Realm_, vol. iii., p. 425, 426. It should, however, be remembered that under the term chough was in former times included the whole of the _Corvidæ_. Shakspeare’s “russet-pated choughs” are evidently jackdaws. [291]In Appendix III. is given a list of all the birds hitherto observed in the New Forest District, as also more special information, which I thought would not interest the general reader. [292]Collections for the _History of Hampshire_, by Richard Warner, vol. iii., pp. 37, 38. A brief list of Hampshire words will also be found in _Notes and Queries_, First Series, vol. x., No. 250, p. 120. Mr. Halliwell, in his account of the English Provincial Dialects, p. xx., prefixed to his _Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words_, mentions a MS. glossary of the provincialisms of the Isle of Wight, by Captain Henry Smith, of which he has made use. [293]The numbers after a plant refer to its numerical place in the _London Catalogue_, whose nomenclature, and arrangement have been followed. The English synonyms have been chiefly taken from Smith. [294]_Scirpus parvulus_ (R. and S.), mentioned by Rev. G. E. Smith as growing “on a mud-flat near Lymington,” is now extinct. See Watson’s _Cybele Britannica_, vol. iii. p. 78; and Bromfield, in the _Phytologist_, vol. iii., 1028. THE END. London: Printed by Smith, Elder & Co., Little Green Arbour Court, Old Bailey, E.C. _By the same Author._ Crown 8vo. with Illustrations by W. J. Linton, printed on tinted paper, and handsomely bound in cloth gilt, price 7s. 6d. SHAKSPERE: _His Birthplace and its Neighbourhood._ Selection from Notices by the Press. (The Westminster Review.) ‘A most elegant volume. Artist, printer, and author have vied with each other in its production. All the well-known spots are taken from their most favourable points of view, and engraved with a skill for which Mr. Linton’s name is a sufficient guarantee. Mr. Wise is peculiarly fitted for his task. He revels in painting the beauties of his native county with an enthusiastic admiration, in which he makes Shakspere share, by the readiness with which he localises descriptions in the poet’s works that would have no such home-like effect on an ordinary reader. He does this, too, without any arbitrary forcing, and gives a new grace to the character of the universally beloved poet by connecting him by hitherto unobserved ties with the home of his youth.’ (The Spectator.)