44 BIRD NAMES. [x\o. 14. 



they are not common as the others are." As Pennant remarks 

 in his Arctic Zoology, 1785, referring to the above (but without 

 naming Lawson) : " We must therefore join it, for the present, 

 to this species." 



In Swainson's ProWncial Xames of British Birds, 1885, we 

 find SHOVELARD (Is^orfolk) ; MAIDEN DUCK (AVexford) ; SHEL- 

 DRAKE and WHINYARD (Waterford) ; "whinyard" being ^' the 

 name for a knife like the Shoveller's bill in shape." Mr. Swain- 

 son also states that the name Whinyard is given in "Wexford to 

 the European Pochard Fuligula ferina. 



