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CRO^LA.N LOCHAiDH. A Gaelic name for the KITE. Croman is 

 used in lona and Mull, according to Graham, not only for 

 the KITE, but other large hawks. 



Croman loin. A Gaelic name for the COADIOX SNIPE. 



Crom nar anileag : The WOODCOCK. (lona and Mull) lit. 

 " crooked thing of the leaves." 



Crooked bill : The AVOCET. Montagu gives it as a pro- 



\'incial name. 

 Cropiedydd : The TREECREEPER. (North Wales) lit. 



" creeper." 

 Crossbill^ See C0M:\I0X CROSSBILL. 

 Crotchet-tailed Puttock : The KITE. Occurs in Mac- 



gilli\Tay. SAvainson gives " Crotch tail " as an Essex name 



for the species. Crotchet-tailed:=fork-tailed. 

 Croupy Craw. A North Country name for the RAVEN. 



(Swainson.) Crouj)y would be from its harsh ciy, and 



craw=crow. 

 Crow : The CARRION-CROW is often so termed without the 



prefix. Pennant (1766) calls the species "Crow" simply. 



The name is also applied poi:)ularly to the ROOK. 

 Cruchet: The RING-DOVE. Chiefly North of England or 



Scotland ; probably a variant of " Cushat." 

 Cryel Heron or Dwarf Heron. Turner's name for a species 



of Heron, which I take to be the LITTLE EGRET. 

 CuACH. A Gaelic name for the CUCKOO. (lona and Mull.) 



Imitative of its cry. 

 Cuckee : The MANX SHEARWATER. 



CUCKOO [No. 214]. The name is onomapoetic, and is such a 

 well received example of a sovmd-name, that the bird has 

 very few provincial names. Tliis is also the case A^dth its 

 name in. most ancient and modem languages, i.e. Gr. 

 coccys, Lat. cuculus, Fr. coucou, G^r. kuckuck, W^elsh cwccw 

 and Cog, Gaelic Cuthag, Sanskrit kokila, etc. In Old and 

 Middle English it occurs as coccou, cuccu, cukkow, cocow ; 

 later it occurs as Cuckow. Chaucer spells it " CuckoAve " ; 

 Turner (1544) has " cukkouu " and " gouke." Merrett 

 (1667) has " Cuckoe or Guckoe." The spelling " Cuckoo " 

 is found in Barlo\A''s plates (1655). A "Cuckoo Song" of 

 the thirteenth centuiy (from the Harleian MS., 978) com- 

 mencing : — 



Somer is icumen in 

 Lhude sing cuccu. 

 Avill be found in the " Trans. Philolog. Soc," 1868-9. 



