Havior—Heavier or Hever

Supposed etymology of *Havior, Heavier*, and *Hever*, as applied by park-keepers to an emasculated male deer.—"NOTES AND QUERIES," (No. 15. p. 230.) Pennant, in his *British Zoology*, 8vo. edition, 1776, vol. i. p. 38., and 8vo. edition, 1812, vol. i. p. 45., under the article, "Goat" says:— "The meat of a castrated goat of six or seven years old, (which is called *Hyfr*,) is reckoned the best; being generally very sweet and fat. This makes an excellent pasty, goes under the name of rock venison, and is little inferior to that of the deer." As Pennant was a Welchman, a scholar and a naturalist…