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Pen y LLwyN. A Welsh name for the MISTLE-THRUSH ; 

 lit. " chief of the grove." 



Percher. a young ROOK, after it has left the nest. 



PEREGRINE^ FALCON [No. 233]. Peregrine, from Lat. 

 peregnnus= wandering, is sometimes used as the name 

 of the species, but it is an adjective, not a substantive. 

 The name Peregrine Falcon appears in Willughby (1678) 

 being anglicized from the Faico peregrmus of Aldrovandus, 

 who gives a good figure of it. Ray remarks that it " took 

 its name either from passing out of one country into another, 

 or because it is not kno^\^l where it builds." In falconry 

 the female used to be called Falcon-gentle and the male 

 Tiercel-, Tassel- or Tercel-gentle (see " Tiercel "). 



Perry Hawk : The PEREGRINE FALCON. (Ryedale, York- 

 shire.) 



Pet Maw. A name for the COMMON GULL and the KITTI- 

 WAKE at Redcar, Yorkshire. 



Petrell. Pennant gives this as a Flamborough name for the 

 KITTIWAKE GULL. 



Petrisen. a Welsh name for the PARTRIDGE. 



Petrisen goesgoch: The RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 

 (North Wales) lit. " red-legged partridge." 



Pettychaps. (See Greater and Lesser Pettychaps.) 



Peweep or PiEWiPE : The LAPWING. (Norfolk.) 



Pewit or Puit : The LAPWING. A common provincial name, 

 imitative of its cry. 



Pewit or Pewit Gull : The BLACK-HEADED GULL. From 

 its cry. The first occurs in Willughby and the second in 

 Pennant. It occurs as "Puit" in Fuller's "Worthies" 

 (p. 318). Peewdt Gull is a present name for the species 

 in North Wales. 



Ph.axaroe: The GREY PHALAROPE. (Yorkshire coast.) 

 A corruption of Phalarope. 



PHEASANT [No. 466]. Mid. Eng. Fesaunt and Fesaun, Fr. 

 Faisan, from Lat. Phasiamis. Originally introduced into 

 Europe from the banks of the River Phasis, now Rioni, in 

 Colchis. The name occurs in Turner (1544) as Phesan, and 

 in Barlow's plates (1655) as "Feasant." Pheasant occurs 

 in Merrett (1667), and also Willughby. Plot (1677) spells it 

 " Phesant." As regards its introduction into England 

 nothing definite is known, except that the bird appears 

 to have been kno^^Tl here before the Conquest, and Newton 

 thinks that it must almost certainly have been brought 



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