. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . of threescore fifteen pounds sterl., to be payed to the said Sr. William 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 88. = md. vol. vii. pp. 90-92. 38 THE GANNET. Sharp, his heires, and exrs. free of all charges whatsomeverincumbant to the delivery of the said Sollen-Geese, and the saidCharles Maitland binds him and his heires and excrs. to contentand i^ay to the said Sr. William Sharp and his foresaids, the saidsum of seven
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . of threescore fifteen pounds sterl., to be payed to the said Sr. William 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 88. = md. vol. vii. pp. 90-92. 38 THE GANNET. Sharp, his heires, and exrs. free of all charges whatsomeverincumbant to the delivery of the said Sollen-Geese, and the saidCharles Maitland binds him and his heires and excrs. to contentand i^ay to the said Sr. William Sharp and his foresaids, the saidsum of seventy-fyve pound sterling, the one half at the date oftheir presents and the other half upon the twenty nynth day ofSeptember next to come in this instant year 1678, with the sumof ane hundred pounds Scots of failzie, to be payed by the partiefailziear to the party willing to observe the premises. In witnessyrof both parties have subscribed their presents with their handstyme and place aforesaid before these witnesses, John Robertson,writer in Edr., and David Callender, writer hereof. Charles Maitland is also to give to me in this season twodozen good Sollen-Geese free. -^:. HERODIONES, ( 39 ) ARDEIDAi. THE COMMON HEEON. GREY HERON, CRESTED HERON, HERONSHAW, HURON, FRANK,CRANE, CRAIGIE HERON, LANG-NECKIT HAARAN. Ardea ^e l^urant, !^uron, or ^erongiijeufft* Lo ! at his siege, the HernUpon the bank of some small furling brookObservant stands to take his scaly prize,Himself anothers game ; for, mark, behindThe wily falcner creeps ; his grazing horseConceals the treachrousfoe, and on his fistTil unhooded Falcoi sits ; with eager eyeShe meditates her prey, and in her wildConceit already plumes the dying bird. SOMERVILLE. In olden times this interesting and picturesque bird, whichis frequently seen in every district of the county, was somuch prized for the marvellous and delectable sportwhich it yielded to the falconer, that an Act was passedby the Scottish Parliament in 1493 f
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