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Black Cock or Black Game : The BLACK GROUSE. The 



name Black Cock occurs in Sibbald (1684). 

 Black Cormorant : The CORMORANT. 

 Black Crow : The CARRION-CROW. (Notty.) 

 Black Citrlew : The GLOSSY IBIS. 

 Black Curre. A Hampsliire name for the TUFTED DUCK. 



Black Diver : The COMMON SCOTER (WiUughbv) ; also the 

 VELVET SCOTER (Northumberland), and sometimes the 

 CORMORANT. 



Black Duck : The TUFTED DUCK, CO:\IMON SCOTER, 

 VELVET SCOTER, and also the SCAUP-DUCK. It is 

 used for the COMMON SCOTER in Northumberland, 

 Yorkshire and Cheshire. 



Black Eagle : The GOLDEN EAGLE (immature). A fairly 

 general name, deri^ ed from its dark plumage. In the High- 

 lands the Gaelic name, lolair dhubh also signifies Black 

 Eagle. Albin's and Pennant's Black Eagle is the same as 

 the Ring-tailed Eagle, for long loiown to be the immature 

 GOLDEN EAGLE. 



BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR [No. 170, Western Black- 

 eared Wheatear ; No. 171, Eastern Black-eared 

 Wheatear]. This is the Black-throated Wheatear of former 

 authors, the Black-eared and Black-throated WTieatears 

 being now considered dimorphisms of the same species. 



Black-faced Bernicle-Goose. Macgilli\Tav's name for the 

 BRENT GOOSE. 



Black-footed Kittiwake : The KITTIWAKE GULL. (Mac- 

 gLlli\'Tay. ) 



Black Game : The BLACK GROUSE. Occurs in WiUughby. 



Black Goose : The BRENT GOOSE. (Essex.) It is also a 

 North Country gunner's name for the same species. 



Black Grebe : The BLACK-NECKED GREBE. 



BLACK GROUSE [No. 463]. Occurs first in WiUughby (1678), 

 who calls this species the " Heathcock or Black-game or 

 Grous," the first-mentioned name being that of the female, 

 which occurs first in Merrett's list (1667) as " Hasel Hen " ; 

 Sibbald calls it Black Cock. It is variously called Black 

 Cock, Black Game or Black Grous by later A\Titers, with 

 Heath Cock, Heath Hen or Hazel Hen for the female. The 

 spelling " Grous " in fact sur\dved to 1835 (Jenj-ns), but 

 one or tAvo uriters and finally Yarrell (1st ed., 1843) adopted 

 the final " e " now invariably used. The word Grouse is 

 of uncertain origin ; it first occurs as " Grows " in an 



