182 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



PiNUT : The MAGPIE. (Notts., Cheshire.) A corruption 



of Planet. 

 PiODEN Y MoR or PioGEN Y MoR : The OYSTERCATCHER. 



(North Wales) lit. " sea-pie." 

 PiOGEN, PiODEN, or PiA. Welsh names for the MAGPIE ; 



lit. " Pie." 

 PiOGEN GOCH, PioGEN-Y-coED : The JAY. (North Wales.) 



The first signifies " red magpie," the second " wood magpie." 



PiOGHAiD. A Gaelic name for the MAGPIE. 



Pipe or Pope: The PUFFIN. (Cornwall.) 



Pipit: The MEADOW- PIPIT. Fr. Piyit from Lat. p?>o, 

 lit. a " piper " or nestling ; pigeon is from the same root. 



Pipit Lark : The TREE-PIPIT. (Pennant.) Montagu's Pipit 

 Lark is no doubt the MEADOW-PIPIT. 



Pirenet or Pirennet : The SHELD-DUCK. (Scotland.) A 

 corruption of " Pied ent " ( Pied Duck). 



PiRRE : The COMMON TERN. (Ireland.) 



PiSAN Cuckoo : The GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO. (Latham.) 



Pit Martin : The SAND-MARTIN. (Craven, Yorkshire.) 



Pit Sparrow. A local Cheshire name for the SEDGE- 

 WARBLER and also the REED-BUNTING. From their 

 frequenting small ponds locally called pits ; Holland also 

 gives Spit Sparrow for the Reed-Bunting in Cheshire. 



Ploughman's Bird : The REDBREAST. (Lofthouse, near 

 Wakefield.) 



Plover : The LAPWING, generally. From Fr. Pluvier, Old Fr. 

 Plovier, probably from Lat. pluvia. rain. 



Plover's Page : The DUNLIN is so called in parts of Scotland 

 and in the Shetlands (Saxby), from its habit of flving in 

 company with the GOLDEN PLOVER. In the Orkneys the 

 name is given to the JACK SNIPE (Dunn). 



Plum-bird or Plum-budder : The BULLFINCH. (Shrop- 

 shire.) From its habit of picking the buds of fruit trees. 



Pochard, Pockard or Poker. See COMMON POCHARD. 



Poke Pudding, Poke Bag, or Pudding Bag : The LONG- 

 TAILED TITMOUSE. (Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Nor- 

 folk.) From the shape of the nest (poke= pocket). 



Polish Swan. An aberrant phase of the MUTE SWAN, in 

 which the cygnets are white, instead of dark grey. It was 

 first described by Yarrell ("P.Z.S.," 1838, p. 19) as a 

 separate species. 



