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Easing Swallow or Eaves Swallow : The MARTIN. (Craven.) 

 See Easing Sparrow. 



Easterling. a name for the WIGEON. Rutty ("N.H. Co. 

 DubUn") gives Easterling for the male and Lady fowl for the 

 female, and Latham says they were sold in London mider 

 these names. 



Eastern Golden Plover : The ASIATIC GOLDEN PLOVER. 



EASTERN RUFOUS TURTLE-DOVE [No. 349]. An East 

 Asian species, recorded as occurring once near Scarborough. 



EASTERN SKY-LARK [No. 03]. A Western Asiatic form of the 

 Sky-lark. 



EAST SIBERIAN MEADOW-BUNTING [No. 50]. An Eastern 

 Asiatic species Avhich has once reached our shores. 



Eave Spabrow : The HOUSE-SPARROW. (Notts.) 



Eave Swallow : The MARTIN. (Notts.) 



Ebb: The COMIMON BUNTING. Montagu gives it as a 

 pro^ancial name. 



Ebb-Sleeper : The DUNLIN. (Orkney and Shetland.) 



Edder : The CO:\mON EIDER. (Montagu.) 



Egle. Given by Aldrovandus as Enghsh name for an EAGLE. 



Egret : The LITTLE EGRET. (Montagu.) 



Egret Heron : The LITTLE EGRET. (Pennant.) 



Egyptian Goose. An introduced species, of which examples are 

 not infrequently shot, but without any evidence that they 

 are genuine visitors. It is included by Yarrell (1st ed.) 

 and others of our earher authors. MacgilHvray calls it 

 EgjqDtian Fox-Goose. 



EGYPTIAN NIGHTJAR [No. 203]. This species, so-called 

 because Lichtenstein's type-example came from Egypt, 

 ranges from the latter country to Afghanistan. 



EGYPTIAN VULTURE [No. 255]. The name is first found in 

 Latham ("Syn.," i, p. 13). It is the Alpine Vulture of 

 Be^^'ick (1832) and other authors. Egyptian Vulture is 

 derived either from its inhabiting Egypt and other parts 

 of Africa, or else from Egypt being the locality of Linnaeus's 

 t;;/pe. 



Eider- Duck. The more general name for the COIMMON 

 EIDER. 



Ehedydd : The SKY-LARK. (North Wales) Ut. " a flier." 



Ehedydd bach : The MEADOW-PIPIT and the ROCK-PIPIT. 



(North Wales) lit. " little lark." 



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