[315] See Harting’s “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” pp. 101, 102; Yarrell’s “History of British Birds,” vol. ii. p. 581.
[316] “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 107.
[317] Cf. “Midsummer-Night’s Dream,” ii. 2; “Twelfth Night,” v. 1.
[318] “English Folk-Lore,” pp. 62-64; Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 191; Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. x. p. 424; Douce’s “Illustrations of Shakespeare,” 1839, p. 380.
[319] Cf. Spenser’s “Epithalamium,” v. 8:
“The thrush replies, the mavis descant plays,
The ouzell shrills, the ruddock warbles soft.”
[320] Standard, January 26, 1877.
[321] “English Folk-Lore,” p. 76.
[322] Henderson’s “Folk-Lore of Northern Counties,” 1879, p. 122.
[323] “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 121.