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 9 th S. X. DEC. 6, 1902.]

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represents a dark woman, with a regula oval face, and, as I said, has a look of Guid< Reni. Perhaps Zurbaran also had in his mind when he was painting it " the young man crowned with ivy" in Velasquez': 'Drunkards' at Madrid. It certainly is no the same person as the one shown in the 'Lady Whitmore' at Hampton Court. I hav a faint idea the original may have been a mistress of our Charles I.'-vhen at Madrid In any case, she was an older woman than Grammont's "Miss Brooks." Z.

BURIALS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY (9 fch S. x 206, 258). To make this list complete, the name of the Duchess of Northumberland who was buried on 19 December, 1890, shoulc be added. During the same period the Rev S. Flood Jones (Precentor), the Rev. John Troutbeck (Precentor), Mr. Charles St. Clare Bedford (Chapter Clerk), and the Rev. C. W. Furse (Canon) were buried in the cloisters.

Gi F. R. B.

"SWIFT'S STARLING" (9 th S. x. 325). It is to be feared that the advice, " Always verify your references," or quotations, is more often

given than acted upon. Sterne's unhappy ird seems doomed to be blundered over. Mrs. B. M. Croker, in her pleasant story of Indian life ' The Cat's-paw,' makes her heroine say (p. 300), " I felt like the thrush who cried, ' I can't get out, I can't get out ! ' "

WALTER JERROLD. Hampton-on-Thames.

ANGLO-SAXON NAMES FOR BIRDS (9 th S. x. 348). Higora, masc., and higere, fern., explained by Dr. Sweet as " magpie or wood- pecker," are obviously very closely related. The root is hig-, sense unknown. Hlce-mdse is "a titmouse," where Alee is from a root Ale-, also of unknown meaning. There is no necessary connexion between these roots. The A.-S. for "cuckoo" is properly geac, closely allied to Icel. gaukr and the G. Gauch. The form of the root would be geuk- ; but the word is, not improbably, imitative. All that seems to be certain is that we have here three distinct roots, all of unknown meaning, though they may possibly be of imitative origin. W. W. S.

IANTHE (9 th S. x. 328). The lady referred to under this title in About's 'La Grece Con tern poraine,' as to whose identity MR. HEBB inquires, was Jane Elizabeth Digby, only daughter of Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G.C.B., sister of the ninth Baron Digby, and granddaughter of Thomas Coke, first Earl of Leicester. She married in 1824, as his

second wife, Edward, second Baron Ellen- borough, who was Governor-General of India from 1841 to 1844, and was advanced to an earldom in the latter year. The marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1830, and two years later the lady married Charles Theodore Herbert, Baron Venningen of Bavaria. Her third husband was Cheikh Medjuel el Mazrab, a general in the Greek army ; and I rather think (though I am not sure) that she married for a fourth time a few months before her death, which took place at Damascus on August llth, 1881. Sir Kenelm Digby, K.C.B., the present Permanent Under Secretary for the Home Department, is her nephew.

D. OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. - Oxford.

Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough, divorced in 1830, years before Lord Ellenborough was made Governor of India, .married secondly Baron v. Venningen of Bavaria, which name was, of course, pronounced Fenningen ; thirdly, an Arab sheik. Previously to this she took up with a Greek, whose name at this distance of time escapes me, one Tutoche, I think, but rather a brigand than a count, as I remember. S.

LAMB ON THE Ass (9 th S. x. 307, 393.) The ass does not suffer alone from deliberate cruelty. It is generally reported in India that the elephant is tortured in a similar way by a wound being made on the top of the head, or behind the ear, and kept open and raw, to be touched when the animal is obstinate or sluggish. The driver is armed with a formid- able iron goad, but I have only once or twice seen it used .with any violence, and I have never seen the wounds referred to touched the goad. It may be mentioned, however, Deen quiet and willing, as they all usually appear to be.
 * hat the elephants I have travelled on have

The draught bullock frequently has its tail dislocated by twisting ; this is not, and cannot be, excused, even when one has ridden all day, in a hot sun, behind a pair of sluggish bullocks ; but in an hour's experience it becomes plain that these animals will not exert themselves unless Beaten and addressed in deplorably un- eportable language. W. SANDFORD.

Clapham.

GREEK AND RUSSIAN ECCLESIASTICAL VEST- MENTS (9 th S. x. 28, 318, 392). With reference

o the original query, I may note that the Rev.

'ohn O'Brien refers to Gear's ' Euchologium Grsecorum' (Paris, 1647) as his authority,