Part 67

Cackareer: the Kittiwake Gull Caddaw: the Jackdaw Calloo: the Long-tailed Duck Cargoose: the Crested Grebe Carinate: in the form of a keel Carrion Crow Car-swallow: the Black Tern Cere: the wax-like membrane which covers the base of the bill in the Falconidae Chaldrick or Chalder: the Oyster-catcher Chanchider: the Spotted Flycatcher Channel Goose: the Gannet Chanter, Hedge: Sparrow, Accentor or Warbler Charlie Miftie: the Wheatear Chank, and Chank-daw: the Chough Chepster: the Starling Cherry-finch: the Hawfinch Cherry-sucker, Cherry-chopper, and Cherry-Snipe: the Spotted Flycatcher. Chevy Lin: the Redpoll Chickell: the Wheatear Chickstone: the Stonechat Chippet Linnet: the Redpoll Church Owl: the White Owl Churn Owl: the Nightjar Churr: the Dunlin Cirl Bunting Clack Goose, Clakes: the Bernicle Goose Clatter Goose: the Brent Goose Clee: the Red Shank Cleff: the Tern Clinker: the Avocet Cloven-footed Gull: the Tern Coal-and-candle-light: the Long-tailed Duck Coal Goose: the Cormorant Coaly Hood: the Bullfinch or Coal Mouse Cob: the male Swan Cob: the Great Black-backed Gull Cobble: the Great Northern Diver Cobbler's Awl: the Avocet Cobweb: the Spotted Flycatcher Cockandy: the Puffin Cock-winder: the Wigeon Coddy Moddy: the common Gull in its first year's plumage Coldfinch: the Pied Flycatcher Colk: the King Duck Colin: a name in New Spain for Quail Compressed: flattened vertically Coot-foot: the Phalarope Copperfinch: the Chaffinch Corbie: the Raven Corndrake: the Land-Rail Cornish Crow, or Daw: the Chough Cornwall Kae: the Chough Coulterneb: the Puffin Crake, Little " Spotted Crank bird: the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Craw: part of the stomach in birds Cream-coloured Plover: Swiftfoot or Courser Courser Gull: the Glaucous Gull Creeper, Creep-tree, or Tree-creeper. These names are in some places given to the Nuthatch Crested Cormorant: the Shag " Heron, Common or Grey Cricket-bird: the Grasshopper Warbler Cricket Teal: the Garganey Crooked Bill: the Avocet Crossbill: Common Cuckoo's Leader or Mate: the Wryneck Cuhnen: the ridge of the upper mandible Cultrate: in the form of a billhook or pruning knife Curlew-Jack: the Whimbrel Curwillet: the Sanderling Cushat: the Ring Dove Cutty Wren: the Common Wren Cygnet: the young Swan

Daker Hen: the Land-Rail Danish Crow: the Hooded Crow Darr, Blue: the Black Tern Dertrum Depressed: flattened horizontally Deviling: the Swift Dick Dunnock: the Hedge Sparrow Dippearl: the Tern Dirty Allen: the Skua Dishwater: the Wagtail Diving Pigeon: the Guillemot Dobbler and Dobchick: the Lesser Grebe Door Hawk and Dorr Hawk: the Nightjar. Dorbie: the Dunlin Doucker: a popular name for a Grebe or Diver Doveky: the Black Guillemot Dove-coloured Falcon: the Peregrine Falcon Draine: the Missel Thrush Duck Hawk: the Marsh Harrier Ducker: a popular name for a Grebe or Diver Dulwilly: the Ring Plover Dunkir and Dunair: the Pochard Dun Crow: the Hooded Crow Dundiver: the female and young of the Merganser Dung Hunter: the Skua Dunlin Dunnock: the Hedge Sparrow

Earl Duck: the Red-breasted Merganser Easterling: the Smew Ebb: the Bunting Ecorcheur: the Shrike Egret: a tuft of long narrow feathers found on the lower part of the neck of the Herons. The name is also sometimes extended to the two tufts of feathers, resembling ears or horns, in some of the Owls Elk: the Hooper Swan Emmer or Ember Goose: the Great Northern Diver Emmet Hunter: the Wryneck Erne: the Eagle

Falk or Falc: the Razor-bill Faller: the Hen Harrier Fallow Chat, Fallow Finch, Fallow Lunch, or Fallow Smich: the Wheatear Fanny Redtail: the Redstart Fauvette: the Garden Warbler, also applied to others of the Warblers. Feather-poke: i. e. "sack of feathers" is the Chiff-chaff, so called from the materials and form of the nest Felt and Feltyfare: the Fieldfare Fiddler: the Common Sandpiper Field Duck: the Little Bustard Field Lark: the Skylark Fiery Linnet: the Common Linnet Finch, or Lapland Bunting Fire-crested Regulus or Wren Fire-tail: the Redstart Flapper: a young Duck Flopwing: the Lapwing Flusher: the Butcher-bird Foot: The foot of a bird consists of four, never less than three, toes, with their claws, and the joint next above, called the "tarsus" French Linnet: the Redpoll " Magpie: the Red-backed Shrike " Pie: the Great Spotted Woodpecker.

Gaggle: a flight of Wild Geese Gairfowl: the Auk and the Razor-bill Gallinule: the Moor Hen; this name is sometimes applied to the Crakes Gallwell Drake: the Land Drake Gannet: the Skua Garden Ouzel: the Blackbird " Warbler Gardenian Heron: the young of the Night Heron Gaunt: the Crested Grebe Gidd: the Jack Snipe Gillhowter: the White Owl Gladdy: the Yellow Hammer Glaucous Gull Glead, Gled, or Glade: the Kite Goat Owl and Goatsucker: the Nightjar Goldeneye Golden-crested Regulus, Warbler or Wren " Oriole or Thrush " Plover Gorcock: the Moor Cock Gorsehatch: the Wheatear Gorse-duck: the Corn Crake Gorse Linnet: the Common Linnet Goud Spink: the Goldfinch Gouldring: the Yellow Hammer Gourder: the Petrel Gouk: the Cuckoo Graduated: a term applied to the tail of a bird when the middle feathers are longest and the outer ones are shorter in gradation Greenwich Sandpiper: the Ruff Grey: the Gadwall Grey-bird: the Thrush Grey-Duck: the Gadwall " Coot-footed Tringa: the Phalarope " Crow: the Hooded Crow " Falcon: the Hen Harrier " Heron: common or Crested Heron " Lapwing, or Sandpiper: the Grey Plover " Linnet: the Common Linnet " Owl: the White Owl " Partridge: the Common Partridge " Shrike, Lesser: the Ash-coloured Shrike " Skit: the Water-Rail " -lag: Fen, Stubble, or Wild Goose Grisette: the Whitethroat Ground Lark: the Pipit and Bunting " Wren: the Willow Warbler Guldenhead: the Puffin Gull-tormentor: the Skua Gunner: the Great Northern Diver Gurfel: the Razor-bill Gustarda: the Bustard

Hackbolt: the Greater Shearwater Hadji: the Swift Hagdown: the Greater Shearwater Haggard: the Peregrine Falcon Hagister: the Magpie Half-Curlew: the Whimbrel and Godwit " -Duck: the Wigeon, Pochard, etc. " -Snipe: the Jack Snipe Harle: the Red-breasted Merganser Harpy: the Marsh Harrier Hawk Owl: this name is sometimes given to the Short-eared Owl Hay-bird, or Hay-Tit: the Willow Warbler Hay-Jack: the Garden Warbler and Whitethroat Heather Bleater: the Snipe Heath Throstle: the Ring Ouzel Hebridal Sandpiper: the Turnstone Heckimal: the Blue Tit Hedge-Chicken: the Wheatear " -Jug, the Long-tailed Tit Hegrilskip: the Heron Helegug: the Puffin Hellejay: the Razor-bill Hern, Hernshaw, Heronshaw: the Heron Heronsewgh: the Heron Herring-bar: perhaps a corruption of Herring-bird, Diver Herring Gant: the Gannet " Gull Hew-hole: the Woodpecker Hickwall: the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker High-hoo: the Woodpecker Hiogga: the Razor-bill Hissing Owl: the White Owl Hoarse Gowk: the Snipe Hoddy: the Crow Holm Cock and Holm Screech: the Mistle Thrush Hoop: the Bullfinch Hornfinch: the Petrel Horniwinks: the Lapwing Horra: the Brent Goose Horsefinch: the Chaffinch Horsmatch: the Red-backed Shrike, the Wheatear and Whinchat Howlet: the Brown Owl Howster: the Knot Huckmuck: the Long-tailed Tit Hullat: the Owl

Icebird: the Little Auk Imber, or Great Northern Diver Isle of Wight Parson: the Cormorant Iris (plural, Irides): the coloured circle of the eye surrounding the pupil Isaac: the Hedge Sparrow Ivy Owl: the Barn Owl

Jack Curlew: the Whimbrel Jackdaw Jack-nicker: the Goldfinch " Saw: the Goosander " Snipe Jar Owl: the Night Owl Jay, Jay Pie, or Jay Pyet Jenny: the Wren Jid or Judcock: the Jack Snipe

Kadder and Kae: the Jackdaw Kamtschatka Tern: the Black Tern Katabella: the Hen Harrier Kate: the Hawfinch Katogle: the Eagle Owl Kiddaw: the Guillemot King-Harry: the Goldfinch Kip: the Tern Kirktullock: the Shoveler Kirmew and Kirmow: the Tern Knee: a name often given, though inaccurately, to the junction of the tarsus and tibia of a bird. Knot

Lamhi or Lavy: the Guillemot Land Curlew: the Great Plover Lary: the Guillemot Laughing Goose: the White-fronted Goose Lavrock: the Skylark Leg-bird: the Sedge Warbler Lesser wing-coverts: the feathers which overlie the greater wing-coverts, or those next the quills Ling-bird: the Meadow Pipit Linlet: a young Linnet Lobefoot: the Phalarope Long-tongue: the Wryneck Loom or Loon: the Diver Lore: the space between the beak and the eye Lough Diver: the Smew Lum, Lungy: the Guillemot Lumme: the Diver Lyre: the Manx Shearwater

Madge Howlet: the White Owl Maglowan: a name for the Divers Magpie Diver: the Smew Malduck, or Malmarsh: the Fulmar Mallemoke: the Fulmar Mandibles: upper and under, the two portions of a bird's bill Man-of-war bird: the Skua Manx Shearwater: the Manx Petrel Marketjew Crow: the Chough Marrot: the Guillemot and Razor-bill May-bird, or Mayfowl: the Whimbrel Mavis: the Thrush Meadow Crake, or Drake: the Gallinule " Pipit, Titlark or Titling Meggy-cut-throat: the Whitethroat Merlie: the Blackbird Mew or Mow: a Gull Millithrum: the Long-tailed Tit Minute Gallinule: the Little Crake " Merganser: the young Smew " Tringa: the Little Stint Mire Snipe: the Snipe Mistle Thrush, or Mistletoe Thrush Mitty: the Petrel Mock-bird: the Sedge Warbler " Nightingale: the Blackcap and Garden Warbler Monk: the Bullfinch Moor Blackbird, or Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel " Hen, or Water Hen Morrot: the Guillemot Moss-cheeper: the Meadow Pipit Mother Carey's Chickens: the Petrels Mountain Linnet: the Twite " Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel Mouse Hawk or Owl: the Hawk Owl Mow: a Gull Mud-plover: the Grey Plover Muggy: the Whitethroat Mullet: the Puffin Mum-ruffin: the Long-tailed Tit Murdering-bird: the Butcher-bird

Nape: the upper part of the neck behind Neck-a-pecker and Nickle: the Woodpecker Night-crow, or Night-hawk: the Nightjar " Heron Nope: the Bullfinch Norfolk Plover: the Great Plover Norie: the Cormorant Northern Crow: the Hooded Crow Norway Lark: the Snow Bunting Nun: the Blue Tit

Oke: the Auk Olive: the Oyster-catcher Olive-tufted Duck: the Goldeneye Operculum: a lid or covering Orbit: the skin that surrounds the eye, and in some birds is destitute of feathers Ouzel, Water, or Dipper Oven-bird: the Chiff-Chaff, Willow Warbler, and Wood Warbler Owl, Long-eared or Horned " Short-eared or Little-horned " Tawny or Brown

Padge and Padge Owl: the Barn Owl Palmipedes: Web-footed Birds Pandle-whew: the Wigeon Parasitic Gull: the Skua Parrot, Ailsa: the Puffin " Sea: the Puffin Parson Mew: the Black-backed Gull Passerine: belonging to the order Passeres " Warbler: the Garden Warbler Pea-finch: the Chaffinch Pearl: the Tern Pease Crow: the Tern Peck: the Bar-tailed Godwit Pectinated: cut like a comb Peese-weep: the Peewit, also sometimes given to the Greenfinch Peggy: the Wren, Whitethroat and the Garden Warbler Peggy cut-throat: the Whitethroat Petrel: the name Petrel is in some places given to the Godwit Pettychaps, Greater: the Garden Warbler " Lesser: the Chiff-chaff Philomel: the Nightingale Pianet: the Magpie, and Oyster-catcher Picarini: the Avocet Pick-cheese: the Tom-Tit and Great Tit Pickmire: the Black-headed Gull Picktarney and Picket: the Tern Pictarn: the Black-headed Gull Pie, Sea: the Oyster-catcher Pied Diver: the Smew " Wagtail " Wigeon: the Garganey, and Goldeye Pie-finch: the Chaffinch Pienet and Piet: the Magpie Piet, Water: the Water Ouzel Pigeon Hawk: the Sparrow Hawk " Mow, Red-legged: the Black-headed Gull in its winter plumage Pigmy Curloo, or Sandpiper Pine Bullfinch, or Pine Grosbeak Pink: the Chaffinch Pink-footed Goose Pinnock: a Tit Pint: the Laughing Gull Pintail Duck Pirenet: the Sheldrake Plover's Page: the Purple Sandpiper Pocker, or Poker: the Pochard Poke-Pudding: the Long-tailed Tit Pomarine Skua, or Gull, Twist-tailed Poor-willie: the Godwit Pop: the Redwing Pope: the Puffin Popinjay: the Green Woodpecker Port-Egmont Hen: the Common Skua Post-bird: the Spotted Flycatcher Primaries: the quills, usually ten, of the terminal joint of a bird's wing. Provence Furzel: the Dartford Warbler Proud-tailor: the Goldfinch Puckeridge: the Nightjar Pudding-poke: the Long-tailed Tit Puffin Puffinet: the Black Guillemot Purple Sandpiper Purre: the Dunlin Puttock: the Buzzard and Kite Pywipe: the Lapwing

Quaketail: the Wagtail Que: the Night Heron Queest or Quest: the Ring-dove Queet: the Coot and Guillemot Quills: the large feathers of the wing, called primary, or digital; secondary or cubital; and tertiary, or humeral; according as they arise from the terminal, middle, or inner joint Quill-coverts: a row of feathers immediately covering the base of the quills above and below, and therefore called upper and under Quinck: the Goose

Rafter-bird: the Spotted Flycatcher Rail, Land Rain-bird: the Green Woodpecker " -Goose: the Red-throated Diver Raptores: Birds of Prey Rasores: Gallinaceous Birds Rattle-wings: the Goldeneye Redcap: the Goldfinch Red Godwit: the Bar-tailed Godwit " Grouse Red-headed Linnet: the Common Linnet and Redpoll " Pochard: the Common Pochard " Wigeon: the Common Wigeon " Hoop: the Bullfinch " -legged Crow: the Chough " " Godwit: the Spotted Sandpiper " " Gull, the Black-headed Gull " " Partridge " -necked Coot-foot, Lobefoot, or Phalarope Red Sandpiper: the Knot in its summer plumage Redstart, Common " Black Red-throated Diver Red-winged Blackbird: Maize-bird, or Starling Reed-bird: the Sedge Warbler Reed Bunting: the Black-headed Bunting " Fauvette: the Sedge Warbler " Pheasant: the Bearded Tit " Sparrow: the Black-headed Bunting " Warbler or Wren Reeve: the female of the Ruff Richardson's Skua Richel Bird: the Lesser Tern Rind-tabberer: the Green Woodpecker Ring Blackbird: the Ring Ouzel " Dove Ringed Dotterel, or Plover " Guillemot " -necked or Great Northern Diver Ring-tailed Eagle: the Golden Eagle in its second year's plumage Rippock: the Tern Rochie: the Little Auk Rock-birds: the Auk, Puffin, and Guillemot " Dove, Rocker Dove, Rockier Dove " Hawk: the Merlin " Lark, or Pipit " Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel " Sandpiper: the Purple Sandpiper Rodge: the Gadwall Rood Goose, or Brent Goose Rose-coloured Ouzel, Pastor, Starling or Thrush " Linnet: the Redpoll, and Common Linnet Rotck, or Rotcke: the Little Auk Rothermuck: the Bernicle Goose Ruddock: the Redbreast, Robin Ruddy Goose, or Sheldrake " Plover: the Bar-tailed Godwit Ruff (female Reeve) Runner: the Water-Rail " Stone: the Ringed Plover

St. Cuthbert's Duck: the Elder St. Martin's Snipe: the Jack Snipe Sandcock: the Redshank Sanderling Sandsnipe: a Sandpiper Sandwich Tern Sandy-loo: the Ring Plover " Poker: the Pochard Sarcelle: the Long-tailed Duck Saw-bill: the Merganser Scale Drake: the Sheldrake Scallop-toed Sandpiper: the Phalarope Scammel: the Bar-tailed Godwit Scapulars: the feathers which rise from the shoulders and cover the sides of the back Scar Crow: the Black Tern Scarf and Scart: the Shag Scaurie: the Herring Gull Scooper: the Avocet Scotch Goose: the Brent Goose Scout: the Common Guillemot Scurrit: the Lesser Tern Scrabe: the Manx Shearwater Scraber: the Black Guillemot Scraye: the Tern Screamer and Screecher: the Swift Screech: the Missel-Thrush " Martin: the Swift " Owl: the Barn Owl Scull: the Skua Scuttock: the Guillemot Sea Crow: the Cormorant, and Black-headed Gull " Dotterel: the Turnstone " Hen: the Guillemot Sea Lark: the Rock Pipit and Ring Plover " Mall, Mew, or Mow: the Gull " Parrot: the Puffin " Pheasant: the Pintail Duck " Pie: the Oyster-catcher " Sandpiper: the Purple Sandpiper " Snipe: the Dunlin " Swallow: the Tern " Titling: the Rock Pipit " Turtle-dove: the Guillemot and Rotche " Wigeon: the Scaup " Woodcock: the Godwit Seaford Goose: the Brent Bernicle Secondaries: the quill-feathers arising from the second joint of the wing Sedge-bird, Sedge Warbler, or Sedge Wren Selninger Sandpiper: the Purple Sandpiper Serrator: the Ivory Gull Serrated: toothed like a saw Serrula: the Red-breasted Merganser Sheldapple: the Crossbill This name and "Shelly" are sometimes given to the Chaffinch Shepster: the Starling Shilfa: the Chaffinch Shoeing-horn: the Avocet Shore-bird: the Sand Martin " Pipit: the Rock Pipit Short-eared or -horned Owl Shrieker: the Black-tailed Godwit Shrimp-catcher: the Lesser Tern Shrite: the Missel Thrush Silvery Gull: the Herring Gull Skart: the Cormorant, and Shag Skein: a flight of Geese Skiddaw: the Guillemot Skiddy Cock, Skilty, or Skit: the Water-Rail Skite: the Yellow Hammer Skitty: the Spotted Crake Skrabe: the Black Guillemot Snake-bird: the Wryneck Snite: the Snipe Snow-bird: the Ivory Gull " -Bunting: Flake, or Fleck Snuff-headed Wigeon: the Pochard Solan, or Solent Goose: the Gannet Solitary Snipe: the Great Snipe Song Thrush: the Common Thrush Sparlm-fowl: the female Merganser Spectacle Duck: the Goldeneye Speculum: the bright feathers which form a kind of disc of the wing of the Ducks Speckled-bellied Goose: the White-fronted Goose " Diver: the young of the Great Northern Diver Spider-diver: the Dabchick Speney: the Petrel Spink: the Chaffinch Spoonbill, White Spotted-necked Turtle Dove: the Turtle Dove Sprat Loon, the young of the Great Northern Diver " Mew: the Kittiwake Gull Spurre: the Tern Standgale, or Stannel: the Kestrel Starling, Common, Stare, or Starenil Staynil: the Starling Steel Duck, Larger: the Goosander " " Lesser: the Merganser Stint: the Dunlin, or any similar bird, is often so called on the coast Stock-Dove Stonechacker or Stoneclink: Stonechat Stone Curlew: the Great Plover Stonegale: the Kestrel Stone Hawk: the Merlin " -smirch: the Wheatear Stork, White Storm Cock: the Missel Thrush " Petrel, or Storm Finch Straney: the Guillemot Summer Snipe: the Sandpiper " Teal: the Garganey " Duck, or Sheldrake: the Long-tailed Duck Sweet William: the Goldfinch Swiftfoot: the Courser Swimmer, Little: the Phalarope Swine-pipe: the Redwing

Tail-coverts: upper and under, feathers covering the basal portion of the tail feathers above and below Tailor, Proud: the Goldfinch Tammie Cheekie and Tammie Norie: the Puffin Tang-waup: the Whimbrel Tangle-picker: the Turnstone Taring, Tarrot: the Tern Tarrock: the young of the Kittiwake Gull Tarse: the male Falcon, a name used in falconry Tarsus: the bone of a bird's foot next above the toes. In a domestic fowl the tarsus is the portion between what is called the "drumstick" and the toes; the shank Tatler: a Sandpiper Teal Cricket: the Garganey Teaser: the Skua Teewit: the Peewit Tertiaries: the quills which spring from the third or inner joint of a bird's wing Thistlefinch: the Goldfinch Three-toed Sand-grouse Thrice-cock: the Mistle Thrush Throstle: the Thrush Tibia: the joint of a bird's leg next above the tarsus; the "drumstick." Tick: the Whinchat Tidley: the Wren Tinkershere, or Tinker's hue: the Guillemot Tippet Grebe: the Crested Grebe Titlark, and Titling: the Meadow Pipit " Sea: the Rock Pipit Tom Harry: the Skua Tom Pudding: the Dabchick Tommy Norie: the Puffin Tomtit: the Blue Tit Tonite: the Wood Warbler Tony Hoop: the Bullfinch Tope: the Wren Tor-Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel Towilly: the Sanderling Tree Pipit, or Lark " Sparrow " Sheeler: the Tree Creeper Tuchit: the Lapwing Plover Tufted Duck Tuliac: the Skua Turkey-bird: the Wryneck Turtle, Sea: the Guillemot and Ricke Twink: the Chaffinch Twit Lark: the Meadow Pipit Tystie: the Black Guillemot

Ulnia: the Tawny Owl Under tail-coverts: the feathers which overlap the base of the tail beneath Under wing-coverts: the feathers which cover the wings beneath Upper tail-coverts: the feathers which overlap the base of the tail above Upper wing-coverts: the feathers which overlap the base of the quills Utick: the Whinchat

Vare Wigeon: the Smew Velvet Runner: the Water-Rail

Wagell: the young of the Great Black-backed Gull Wall Hick: the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Wash-dish and Washerwoman: the Pied Wagtail Water-hen: the Moor-hen " Crow, the Dipper " Junket: the Common Sandpiper " Ouzel or Dipper " Sparrow: the Sedge Warbler " Tie: the Wagtail " Wagtail: the Pied Wagtail Waxen Chatterer or Waxwing Wease-alley: the Skua Weasel Coot: the young Smew " Duck: the Smew Weet-weet: the Common Sandpiper Wellplum: the Red-headed Pochard Whaup: the Curlew Whautie: the Whitethroat Wheel-bird, or Wheeler: the Nightjar Wheety-why: the Whitethroat Winthrush: the Redwing Whewer: the Wigeon Whey-bird: the Whitethroat Whilk: the Scoter Whim: the Wigeon Whimbrel or May-bird Whin Linnet: the Common Linnet Whistling Plover: the Golden Plover Whistling Swan: the Whooper Swan White Baker: the Spotted Flycatcher White-breasted Blackbird: the Ring or Water Ouzel " -faced Duck: the Pochard " Tinch: the Chaffinch " -headed Goosander: the Smew " -headed Cormorant: the Common Cormorant " -headed Harpy: the Moor Buzzard " Nun: the Smew " -spot Cormorant: the Common Cormorant " -tail: the Wheatear " -winged Black Duck: the Velvet Scoter Whit-ile, i. e. Whittle: the Green Woodpecker Whitterick: the Curlew Whitty-beard: the Whitethroat Whitwall and Witwall: the Green Woodpecker Wierangel: the Ash-coloured Shrike Willock and Willy: the Guillemot Willow-biter: the Tomtit Willywicket: the Common Sandpiper Windhover and Windfanner: the Kestrel Windle, Winnard, and Wind-thrush: the Redwing Wing-coverts: several rows of feathers covering the basal part of the quills above and below, and called the upper and under wing-coverts; the feathers outside these are called the lesser wing-coverts Winglet: a process arising from near the base of the terminal joint of the wing, answering to the thumb in the human hand Winnel and Windle-Straw: the Whitethroat Winter-bonnet: the Common Gull " Duck: the Pintail Duck " -Gull, or Mew: the Common Gull in its winter plumage " Wagtail: the grey-headed Wagtail Witch: the Petrel Witwall: the Green Woodpecker Woodcock Owl: the Short-eared Owl " Sea: the Godwit " -Snipe: the Great Snipe Woodcracker: the Nuthatch Wood Grouse: the Capercaillie Woodpie: the Green Woodpecker Wood Sandpiper " Shrike Woodchat Woodspite, Woodwall, and Woodwele: the Green Woodpecker Wood Warbler, or Wren Writing Lark: the Bunting, so called from the markings of the eggs

Yaffil, Yaffle, Yaffler, Yappingale: the Green Woodpecker Yardkeep and Yarwhip: the Bar-tailed Godwit Yarwhelp: the Stone Plover and Godwit Yeldrin and Yeldrock: the Yellow Hammer Yellow legged Gull: the Lesser Black-backed Gull " Sandpiper: the young of the Ruff " Owl: the White Owl " Plover: the Golden Plover " Poll: the Wigeon " Warbler: the Willow Warbler " Yeldock, Yoit, Yoldrin and Yowley, the Yellow Hammer Yelper: the Avocet

INDEX OF BIRDS AND OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The first numeral refers to the text, the second to the illustration facing the page named.

Auk, Little: 294; p. 291 Avocet: 252; p. 247

Bearded Reedling: 41; p. 46 Bee-eater: 135; p. 129 Bittern: 173; p. 231 Blackbird: 7; p. 3 Blackcap: 23; p. 17 Brambling: 97; p. 85 Bullfinch: 101; p. 97 Bunting, Cirl: 108; p. 108 " Corn (or common): 106; p. 108 " Lapland: 111; p. 108 " Reed: 109; p. 108 " Snow: 110; p. 108 " Yellow (Yellow Hammer): 107; p. 116 Burgomaster: see Gull, Glaucous Bustard, Great: 236; p. 220 Buzzard, Common: 150; p. 149 " Honey: 151; p. 149 " Rough-legged: 151; p. 149

Capercaillie: 212; p. 220 Chaffinch: 95; p. 96 Chiff-chaff: 30; p. 30 Chough: 56; p. 59 Coot: 233; p. 231 Cormorant, Common: 165; p. 166 " Green: 167; p. 166 Courser, Cream-coloured: 240; p. 262 Crake, Corn: 228; p. 230 " Little: 230; p. 230 " Spotted: 229; p. 230 Crane: 234; p. 234 Crested Tit: see Titmice Crossbill: 103; p. 138 " Two barred (White-winged): 106; p. 138 Crow, Carrion: 65; p. 68 " Hooded: 67; p. 68 Cuckoo: 137; p. 138 Curlew, Common: 273; p. 246

Dabchick: see Grebe, Little Dipper: 51; p. 47 Diver, Black-throated: 298; p. 291 " Great Northern: 297; p. 291 " Red-throated: 299; p. 291 Dotterel: 244; p. 246 Dove, Ring (Wood Pigeon): 203; p. 208 " Rock: 208; p. 208 " Stock: 207; p. 208 " Turtle: 209; p. 208 Duck, Black: see Scoter, Black " Eider: 197; p. 198 " Goldeneye: 195; p. 191 " Long-tailed: 196; p. 198 " Pintail: 190; p. 190 " Scaup: 194; p. 191 " Tufted: 194; p. 191 " Wild: 185; p. 179 Dunlin: 262; p. 262