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Collared Turnstone : The TURNSTONE. 



Collier, or Collierjack • The CURLEW. (Cheshire.) Collier 

 is also applied to the HOUSE-SPARROW and the SWIFT 

 in Yorkshire. 



COLLOCHAN Gull : The BLACK-HEADED GULL. (Kirkcud- 

 bright.) From a loch so called. 



CoLOMEN. The Welsh name for the wild pigeons. In North 

 Wales the RING-DOVE is called Colomen wyllt (wild 

 pigeon) or Colomen goed (wood pigeon); the STOCK-DOVE 

 Colomen ddof (tame pigeon) ; the ROCK-DOVE Colomen 

 y graig (rock pigeon) ; and the TURTLE-DOVE Colomen 

 fair (St. Mary's dove.) 



Colly : The BLACKBIRD. (Pro\Tncial.) Der. from A.Sax. 

 col=cosd, and meaning literally, " sooty " or " coal-like." 



CoLMORN : The CORMORANT ; also the SHAG (Hett). 



Common Auk : The RAZORBILL. 



CoMsioN AvocET. See AVOCET. 



Co>moN Bee-eater. See BEE-EATER. 



CoiiMON Bittern. See BITTERN. 



Common Brown or Ivy Owl : The TAA\^NY OWL. ( Willughby. 



Co^nMON Bullfinch. See BULLFINCH. 



CojuMON Bunting : The CORN-BUNTING. 



Co:^nioN Bustard : The GREAT BUSTARD. 



C0:MM0N buzzard [No. 243]. The name Common Buzzard 

 occurs in Willughby (1678). Turner (1544) and Merrett 

 (1667) call it the Buzzard only, as do succeeding ^vTiters 

 to the time of Pennant (1766), who calls it the Common 

 Buzzard. The derivation is from Lat. Buteo, through 

 Fr. Busard. 



ComjVion Coot : The COOT. Occurs in most of the old authors 

 from Willughby to Montagu. 



Common Cormorant : The CORMORANT. (Yarrell.) 



Co:\EMON Crane. See CRANE. 



CoiniON Creeper. A former appellation for the TREE- 

 CREEPER, to be found in most of the older authors from 

 Albin to ^Montagu. 



CO^kOION CROSSBILL [No. 33, Common Crossbill; No. 

 34, Scottish Crossbill.] Occurs in Willughbj^ (1678) 

 as Cross-bill, and as Crossbill in most succeeding 

 authors. The first full account of the habits of feeding of 

 this bird is given by Yarrell (" Zool. Joum.," rv, pp. 459-65). 

 The legend of this bird having acquired its twisted beak by 



