[744]. C. Poll. v. 61.
[745]. Οἱ θάμνοι, the technical term for covert. Poll. v. 15.
[746]. Xen. Cyneg. vi. 14–17.
[747]. Vict. Var. Lect. xxxi. 20. p. 883. seq. Cf. Plin. Hist. Nat. viii. 8, cum notis. Strab. iii. 2. p. 231.
[748]. Suid. v. Λαγώς. t. ii. p. 3.
[749]. This island now abounds in cattle and game, particularly quails and partridges.—Dapper, Descrip. des Iles de l’Archip. p. 173.
[750]. Hist. of Navig. prefixed to Church. Coll. of Voy. and Trav. vol. i. p. xx.
[751]. Poll. v. 74.
[752]. Xen. Cyneg. ix. 1.
[753]. The terms by which, in our old hunting vocabulary, the stag was known at the different periods of his life are as follow:—1. a fawn; 2. a pricket; 3. a sourell; 4. a soure; 5. a buck of the first head; 6. a buck. Wase. Pref. to Gratius, p. 12.