118 DICTION AKY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIEDS. 



Haeeld: The LONG-TAILED DUCK. (Orkney.) From 

 haveld, the Icelandic name of the species. 



Harlan : The PINTAIL. (Wexford.) In the same comity tlie 

 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER is known as Land Harlan. 



Harle : The GOOSANDER (female or young). Also the 

 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER (Orkneys and Shet- 

 lands.) From the Fr. name Harle. 



Harlequin. According to Hett the BUFFEL-HEADED 

 DUCK is sometimes so called. 



HARLEQUIN-DUCK [No. 305]. This name was fii\st given 

 by Pennant (" Ai'ctic Zoology," n, No. 490, 1785). Newton, 

 however, says it Avas anglicized by Forster in 1791 from 

 Linnajus's Anas histrionica. It is the Harlequin Gariot 

 of Selby. 



Harley : The SWIFT. (Forfar.) 



Harpy, Harpy Duck Hawk, or White-headed Harpy : The 

 MARSH-HARRIER. 



Harry Dutchman : The HOODED CROW. From the supposi- 

 tion that the winter-immigrants come from Holland. 



Hasel Hen, Hazel Hen, or Hazel Grouse : The female 

 BLACK GROUSE. Occurs in Merrett (1667) as " Hasel 

 Hen " and in Willughby as " Hazel Hen," the latter sapng 

 that it is the Attagen of Gesner (see Attagen). 



Hatcher : The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Provincial.) 



HAWFINCH [No. 16]. The name probably implies a partiality 

 for haw-berries, but can also mean hedge-fiiich, the original 

 meaning of the word haw being hedge, from A. Sax. haga, an 

 enclosure. Occurs first in Willughby (1678). It is the 

 Grosbeak or Haw-Grosbeak of many authors from Pennant 

 to Montagu. 



Haw Grosbeak. See HAWFINCH. 



Hawk Day-Owl. Macgillivi-ay's name for the Hawk-Owls, 

 now separated as AMERICAN HAWK-OWL and EURO- 

 PEAN HAWK-0\VL. 



Hawk of the first coat. A falconer's term for a Hawk of 

 the fourth year, when it has attained its full groAvth and 

 perfection. A Hawk of the fifth year was moreover called 

 " a hawk of the second coat," and so on. 



Hawk-Owl. Montagu gives this as a provincial name for the 

 SHORT-EARED OWL, on account of the smallness of its 

 head, Avhich gives it a somewhat hawk -like appearance, and 

 Saxby gives it as a Shetland name for that species. The 

 name, however, properly belongs to the EUROPEAN and 

 AMERICAN HAWK-OWLS, members of the genus Surnia 



