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[16.] Jamieson’s Scot. Dict. Cf. Chambers’ Pop. Rhymes, 1841, p. 170–1.

[17.] Thorpe’s North. Mythol., iii. 328.

[18.] Grose, Antiq. (Prov. Gloss.) p. 121.

[19.] Chambers’ Pop. Rhymes, 1841, p. 170.

[20.] Notes and Queries, iv. 53.

[21.] Baird’s Cyclop. of Nat. Sci.

[22.] Kirby and Spence, Introd., ii. 9.

[23.] Newell’s Zool. of the Poets, p. 48.

[24.] Life of Amer. Ins., p. 21.

[25.] A. 1, sc. iii.