162 DICTIOSTARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Mountain Partridge. A variety of the COIMMON PARTRIDGE. 

 Mountain Spahrow. An old name for the TREE-SPARROW. 



It occurs in Albin, Pennant and Montagu, and is also a local 



Cheshire name for the species at the present day. 

 Mountain Thrush: The RING-OUZEL. (Kirkcudbright.) 

 Mouse Falcon. A name for the KESTREL. (Hett.) 

 Mouse-Hawk. A j)rovincial name for the SHORT-EARED 



OWL (Montagu); also the KESTREL (Loftus-in- 



Cleveland, and Beverley, Yorkshire). 

 MuD-DABBER or MuD-STOPPER : The KUTHATCH. (South 



England.) So called from its habit of plastering round its 



nesting-hole with mud. 

 Mud Lakk. A name for the ROCK-PIPIT. (Hett.) 

 Mud Plover. A name for the GREY PLOVER from its 



frequenting flats on the sea-shore. 

 MuFFiE Wren : The WILLOW- WARBLER. (Renfrew.) 

 Muffit: The WHITETHROAT. (Scotland.) Because the 



feathers of the head and neck stand out so as to suggest 



a muffler. 

 Muggy : The WHITETHROAT. (North Yorkshire.) Newton 



thinks it is possibly cognate with the latter part of G^rm. 



Grasmiicke (Grass-Midge), but perhaps it is only a corruption 



of Meggie, as Nelson and Clarke say both names are in use 



in the North Riding of Yorkshire. 

 MuiR Duck (Moor Duck) : The MALLARD. (Stirling.) 

 MuiR EUN (pron. muiT-yan) : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. 



(Horn Head, Donegal.) 

 MuiR Fowl or Muir Hen : The RED GROUSE. (Scotland.) 

 Mule : The SCAUP DUCK. (Wexford.) 

 MuLFBAN, MoRFRAN. Wclsh names for the CORMORANT. The 



first signifies " shy crow," the second " sea-crow." 

 MuLFRAN GOPOG, MoRFRAN GOPOG : The SHAG. (North Wales) 



lit. " crested cormorant." 

 MuLFRAN wen : The GANNET. (North Wales) lit. " white 



cormorant." 

 MuLFBAN werdd, Morfran werdd : The SHAG. (North 



Wales) lit. " green cormorant." 

 Mullet. Willughby gives this as a Scarborough name for the 



PUFFIN. 

 Mullet Hawk. An old name for the OSPREY. 

 MuM-RUFFiN : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Worcester- 

 shire, Shropshire.) 



