240 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Tomtit. A general provincial name for the BLUE TITMOUSE. 

 Swainson also gives it as a Norfolk and Craven name for 

 the WREN, and an Irish name for the TREECREEPER. 

 Tongue Bird or Long Tongue : The WRYNECK. (Pro- 

 vincial.) From its long projectile tongue. 

 Tony hoop: The BULLFINCH. (Somersetshire.) Probably 

 from its whistling note, but Swainson thinks it is from the 

 tawTiy breast of the female. 

 Took : The REDSHANK. From its note. 

 Tope : The WREN. (Cornwall.) 

 Tor Ouzel : The RING-OUZEL. (Devonshire.) 

 Tortoise-shell Goose: The WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 

 (Ireland.) From the mottled markings on the abdomen 

 (Swainson.) 

 Tot-o'er-Seas. Newton gives this as a local East Coast name 

 for the GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN, in allusion to its 

 arrival from overseas on the autumnal migration. It 

 seems to be a Suffolk and perhaps a Norfolk name. 

 TouNAG. A Gaelic name for the MALLARD. (Western Isles.) 



From toun, a wave. 

 TowiLLY or Towwilly: The SANDERLING. (Cornwall.) 



From its cry. Occurs as Tomller in Borlase. 

 Tranillys : The RING- PLOVER. (Hett.) 

 Tree-climber: The TREECREEPER. (Provincial.) Tree- 

 clipper is an Oxfordshire name. 

 TREECREEPER [No. 8.3, British Treecreeper; No. 84, 

 Northern Treecreeper]. Occurs in most of our 

 older authors as "Common Creeper." It is the Certhia of 

 Willughby and Ray. Pennant (1766) calls it "Creeper" 

 simply. Ridgway has separated the resident British 

 form from the North European form, examples of which 

 have been identified in Scotland. 

 Tree Falcon : The HOBBY. (Willughby.) 

 Tree Finch : The TREE-SPARROW. "(Hett.) 

 Tree Goose : The BARNACLE-GOOSE. (Bewick.) In refer- 

 ence to the old legend. (See BARNACLE-GOOSE.) 

 Tree Huck-muck : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Hett.) 

 Tree Lark : The TREE-PIPIT. (Notts, Yorks.) 

 Tree Magpie. A supposed variety of the MAGPIE. 

 TREE-PIPIT [No. 67]. The name occurs in Selby (1825) and 

 arises from its more arboreal habits than the MEADOW- 

 PIPIT. It is the "Pipit Lark" of Pennant, and the 

 " Field Lark " of Montagu. 



