30 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



BoNCATH : The CO^MONT BUZZARD. (North Wales.) Coward 

 and Oldham think it is probably from Boda cath=cat 

 liaM k, from its mewing cry. 



BoNNETiE : The LITTLE GREBE. (Forfar.) 



BoNXiE. A Shetland name for the GREAT SKUA ; said to be 



used also in the Orkney's. 

 Boomer : The BITTERN. From its booming cry. 

 BooNK : The LITTLE BITTERN. (Montagu.) 

 Booty: The MANX SHEARWATER. Mr. R. Godfrey 



informs me it goes under this name on the East Coast of 



Shetland. 



BoTHAG. A Gaelic name for the RINGED PLOVER. 



BoTTLE-BUMP : The BITTERN. (Yorkshire.) 



Bottle- JUG : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (North and 



East Yorkshire.) From the shape of its nest. 

 Bottle-nose : The PU^FFIN. From its peculiarly-shaped bill. 



Willughby records it as so called in South Wales. 

 Bottle Tit or Bottle Tom : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 



(Provincial.) From the shape of it"? nest. 

 Bouger or BowGER : The PUFFIN. Bowger occurs in Martin's 

 "Voy. to St. Ealda"; while Bouger, or Bulker, is the 

 Hebrides name. 

 Bracken Owl : The NIGHTJAR. (Longdendale, Cheshire.) 

 Bracket : The TURNSTONE. (South Northumberland.) 

 Brake-hopper or Brake Locustelle : The GRASSHOPPER- 

 WARBLER. From its habit of frequenting thick under- 

 wood. 

 Brake Nightingale : The NIGHTINGALE. (IMacgillivray.) 

 Bramble Cock : The BR AMBLING. (Cheshire.) 

 Bramble-Finch : The BRAMBLING. (Yorkshire and else- 

 where.) 



BR AMBLING [No. 38]. The name appears in Turner (1544) 

 as " Braml^aig " and in Merrett's list and also Willughby a.s 

 " Bramble or Brambling." Pennant calls it the Brambling 

 or Moimtain Finch. Also applied to the young of the 

 SNOW-BUT^TING. 



Brame : The WHIMBREL. (East Suffolk.) 



Bran : The CARRION-CROW. (Cornish.) Mr. Harting also 

 applies it to the Rook. 



Bran or Bran fawr : The CARRION-CROW. (North Wales) 

 lit. " crow " or " great crow." 



