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Gyr Faixon: The PEREGRINE FALCON. (Longdendale, 

 Cheshire.) 



Hackbolt : The GREAT SHEARWATER. (Scilly Isles.) 



Hacket or Hacklet : The KITTIWAKE. (Provincial.) 



Hagdown : The GREAT SHEARWATER. (Dungarvan, Isle 

 of Man ; and coast of Ireland.) 



Haggard or Haggard Falcon : The PEREGRINE FALCON 

 in aduit-phimage. (Willughby.) 



Hagg.ard Hawk. In falconry, a full-grown hawk, taken in 

 its unreclaimed state. 



Haggister or Hagister. An old Kentish name for the 

 MAGPIE. Occurs in Scott's " Discovery of Witchcraft," 

 where it is said that, " to prognosticate that guests approach 

 to yovu' house upon the chattering of pies or haggisters is 

 altogether vanity and superstition." 



Haigrie"^: The COMMON HERON. (Shetland Isles.) 



Hair-tail : The GARDEN- WARBLER. (Nidd VaUey, York- 

 shii'e.) 



Hairij Woodpecker. An American species said by Latham, 

 Montagu and others, without sufficient evidence, to have 

 reached our shores. 



H-4LCYo:7: The KINGFISHER. (Poetical.) 



H.\LF-BiRD. A fowler's name for the TEAL, COMMON 

 POCHARD, SCAUP-DUCK and other small ducks which 

 bring lesser prices than the larger kinds. It seems to be 

 proper to any land under the size of the MALLARD. It 

 is used in the Fens, also in Norfolk and elsewhei'e. 



H.\LF-CuRLEW : The WHBIBREL. (Norfolk, Yorkshire.) So 

 called from its being a miniature of the CO:\BrON CURLEW 

 (see Half-bird). The name is also applied in Norfolk to 

 the BAR -TAILED GOD WIT. 



H.iLF Nebb : The RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. (Provincial.) 

 H.ALr-SxiPE : The JACK SNIPE. (Norfolk.) So called from 



its being much smaller than the CO:\IMON SNIPE. 

 Half Whaup : The BAR-TAILED GOD WIT. (Forfar). An 



equivalent of Half-Curle\^'. 



Hajibijrg Grosbeak : The TREE-SPARROW. (Latham.) 



Ha^aiburg Tree-Creeper : The TREE-SPARROW. (Albin.) 



HA^AmERBLATE (or Bleat): The COIVBION SNIPE. (Provincial.) 



Handsaw: The HERON. A corruption of " Heronseugh." 

 Occurs in Hamlet (act n, sc. 2) : "I know a liaAAk from 

 a handsaw." 



