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M'CLELLAND FAMILY (11 S. iv. 69).
1. I suggest that M'Lellan is the spelling
common in Scotland, while in Ireland the
form M'Clelland is more usually met with.
2. The M'Clellands of Ulster are, I believe, of the same stock as those of Kirkcudbright.
3. The Clellands were an old family in Scotland, whence was derived the name M'Clelland, meaning son or servant of del- land.
4. The name Clelland is said to have been a territorial designation taken from an estate in Lanarkshire. U.
"KIDKOK" (11 S. iv. 150, 176). The word intended is " kidcote," for which see 'N.E.D.,' and consult the references given at 9 S. v. 376, 499. Sir James Murray's earliest instance is 1515, but the word occurs from 1433 to 1528 in the publications of the Surtees Society, ii. 83 ; xxx. 26, 93 ; liii. 29 ; Ixxix. 38, 70, 102, 271. See also Drake's ' Eboracum,' 1736, p. 281, and Assoc. Archit. Soc. Papers, i. 182. W. C. B. [THE REV. R. J. BURTON also thanked for reply.]
THE CUCKOO AND ITS CALL (11 S. iii. 486 ; iv. 30, 75, 96, 135). I am obliged to MB. DONALD GUNN for his reply. I have learnt since from a friend that he has heard the cuckoo's notes in the Himalayas, and of another who heard it lower down in the Nepaul valley. As this curious bird leads a life of eternal spring and summer, it would be interesting to know if it breeds again during its absence from Europe.
D. K. T.
As to the cuckoo outside of Europe, asked for by D. K. T. on p. 96, seeHichens's
- Holy Land,' pp. 154-5, which detail finding
a cuckoo in Syria, though it is rare there.
ROCKINGHAM.
Boston, U.S.
THE KING'S TURNSPITS : SINECURES TEMP. GEORGE III. (11 S. iv. 107, 177). Sm ERNEST CLARKE may have difficulty in getting a list of sinecures. The best source which occurs to me is a study of the reports of the Select Committee of 1817, and of the Acts of that session abolishing certain offices. The history of the office of Paymaster- General as revealed in the notorious cases of Henry Fox and Rigby (the "brazen boatswain of the Bloomsbury crew") is very suggestive. Horace and other sons of Sir Robert Walpole afford some good (or bad) examples of sinecures. Then there is George Selwyn, " clerk of the irons and surveyor of the meltings of the Mint." But
their name is legion. The debate on a
motion for an account of pensions, 1780,
with Col. Barie's tale of Sir Stephen Fox, is
also useful (21 'Parl. Hist.,' p. 91 ft).
GEORGE WHALE.
PORTRAIT IN PITTI GALLERY : JUSTUS SUSTERMANS (11 S. iii. 267, 314, 418). Justus Sustermans was born at Antwerp in 1597, and died at Florence in 1681. Accord- ing to Burckhardt ('Le Cicerone,' p. 797, Paris, 1892), " il a passe sa vie a Florence, et y a produit cette quantite de portraits excellents qui rappellent parfois Van Dyck et plus encore Velasquez." He was a fellow-
gapil with Van Dyck under Hendrick van alen, and Court painter to the Medici from Cosimo II. to Cosimo III. (?). His works are chiefly at Florence. The following list, derived from catalogues, is probably not impeccable.
In the Galleria Corsini. Portraits :
Maria Maddalena Macchiavelli.
Marchese Senatore Pilippo Corsini.
Maria Maddalena d' Austria.
Gran duca Cosimo II. de' Medici.
Vittoria della Rovere.
Cristina di Lorena.
Ferdinando II. de' Medici.
Bartolommeo, figlio del Marchese Filippo
Corsini. Picaer Fever, Capo degli Arazzieri de Cosimo
II.
Cardinale Neri Corsini. La Vergine col Bambino Gesu e un Angiolo.
In the Pitti. Portraits :
Vittoria della Rovere.
Elia, sopraccomito d'una galera toscana.
Figlio di Federigo III., re di Danimarca.
Principe Mattia de' Medici,
Canonico Pandolfo Ricasoli.
Ferdinando II. de' Medici.
Ritratto infantile del duca Cosimo III. d' Medici.
Ritratto maschile.
Ritratto femminile.
Margherita, figlia di Cosimo II.
Ferdinando II. Imperatore d' Austria.
Eleonora Gonzaga. Santa Famiglia.
In the Uffizi. Principessa Claudia, figlia di Ferdinando I.
de' Medici.
Ferdinando II. de' Medicine gli Senatori di Firenze. Suo Ritratto.
Un gentiluomo della famiglia Pulciani. Una donna, moglie del Pulciani. Santa Margherita. Uomo in costume Svizzero. Galileo Galilei. 2 Ritratte infantile.
In the exhibition of Italian portraits collected at the Palazzo Vecchio, as inci- dental to the " Feste Commemorative del
