60 DICTIONARY OF NA3IES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



CORN-BUNTING [No. 42]. This species is also commonly 

 kno^vn as the Common Bimting — rather a misnomer, as in 

 many localities it is not " common." It is called " Bunting " 

 simply by the older ^\Titers from Willughby to Donovan, 

 Montagu (1802) being the first to name it Common Bunting. 

 The word Bimtmg (Old Eng. " buntyle," Scots "buntlin") 

 is of uncertain origin. Skeat suggests a connexion Mith 

 bunten=^to butt; he also cites Scottish huntin^=short and 

 thick or plump, which Newton, however, thinks likely to 

 have been derived from the bird. Graham (" Bu'ds of 

 lona and Mull") has suggested Scots 6w?^^=gay, hvely, or 

 brisk. 



Corncrake. An alternative name for the LAND-RAIL. Rutty 

 spells it " Corn-Creek," while it becomes Corn -drake in 

 North Yorkshire, Corn-rake at Hawes, Yorkshire, and 

 Com-scrack in Aberdeen. 



Corn Goose: The BEAN-GOOSE. From its partiality to 

 grain. 



CORNICYLL, CORNICYLL Y GORS, CORNICYLL Y WAEN, CORN Y 



wiCH, or Corn OR y Gwennydd. Welsh names for the 

 LAPWING ; Comicyll=Plover. 



CORNICYLL CADWYNOG, CWTYN MODEWYOG : The RINGED 



PLOVER. (North Wales.) Both names signify '' ringed 

 plover." 

 CORNICYLL LLWYD : The GREY PLOVER. (North Wales.) 



Cornish Chough : The CHOUGH. Occurs in Turner (1544) as 

 " Cornish Choghe," and in Merrett, Willughby and Pennant 

 as " Cornish Chough." The prefix Cornish was formerly 

 necessary on account of the name Chough being also applied 

 not infrequently to the JACKDAW, which is so called by 

 Turner and by Merrett. 



Cornish Daw: The CHOUGH (Montagu and Rutty); also 

 occurs as Cornish Jack. 



Cornish Gannet : The GREAT SKUA. (Willughby.) 



Cornish Pheasant : The MAGPIE. (Cornwall.) 



Cornwall Kae : The CHOUGH. (Sibbald.) 



Cornwillen : The LAPWING. (Cornwall.) 



Corny Keevor : The MISTLE-THRUSH. So called about 

 Belfast (Thompson). 



CORRA riathach. A Gaelic name for the COMMON HERON. 

 CoRS HwYAD. A Welsh name for the MALLARD ; lit. "mnrsh 

 duck." 



