Note: The example from Sln. 1986 poses the usual problems associated with mere glosses, that neither the extent of the glossator's ignorance nor the direction of the glossing can be known for sure. DMLBS quotes this passage as the sole evidence that L 'ortygometra' can mean a bunting or a bittern (two birds with nothing in common). Most likely, both English words are a glossator's guesses at an obscure Latin word, which in fact most properly and originally refers to a quail, though other glosses identify it elsewhere as a curlew or a corncrake. It is probably a mistake, however, to suggest that 'bunting' could mean 'quail': the obscure and learned should be explained by the vernacular and familiar, not vice versa.