I024 WARE-GOOSE— WA TTLE-BIRD 



penetrating in summer even beyond the Ai'ctic Circle, and thenc.e 

 migrate southward at the end of summer or in the fall of the year, 

 some reaching Peru and Brazil, but a few, as, for instance, Parula 

 pitiayumi and Geothlypis velata seem to be resident in the country 

 last named. 



WARE-GOOSE, a name for the Brent Goose (pp. 57, 375)— 

 " ware " being a local term for some kind of seaweed. 



WARIANGLE and WIERANGLE (with other variations of 

 spelling) O.H.G. TFerkengel, mod. Germ. TFurgengel and TFurger (the 

 Worrier or Throttler) an obsolete name for the Great Ash-coloured 

 Shrike (p. 844, note; cf. Cotgrave, 1611, sub voce. "Engrouee," 

 " Escrire " and " Pie '')} 



WARWINCKLE, used in 1633, by Simon Latham {Faulconry, ii. 

 p. 144), apparently for a Pied Wagtail (p. 1018), as certainly are 



WASHDISH and WASHTAIL (Holinshed, Descr. Engl chap, 

 ii. ed. 1586, p. 223) : the former very frequently with the prefix 

 "Molly" or "Polly," according to the common custom of nick- 

 naming favourite birds. 



WASKITE,^ given, with the description "from Virginia," in 1655 

 by Izaak Walton {Compleat Angler, ed. 2. p. 18) as the name of a 

 Hawk in Falconry, but otherwise unknown. 



WATCHY-PICKET, a Creole name in Jamaica for Icterus 

 leucopteryx (Sloane, Voy. Jam. ii. pp. 299, 300 ; Gosse, B. Jam. p. 226). 



WATER-, a prefix to the name of many birds, especially to 

 some of the FuiUidm : thus Water-cock is Gallicrex cinerea or cristata 

 (Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. p. 718), Water-hen, a very common equivalent 

 of MoOR-HEN (p. 589), Water-Partridge is Porzana concolor (Gosse, B. 

 Jam. p. 369, and Ave have Water-RAIL (p. 763) ; while Water-Crow 

 and -Ousel (p. 677) are Scottish and English names for Cinclus 

 aquaticus ; the Watex'-Thrush of the English in North America is 

 Siurus novehoracensis, one of the Mniotiltidse (Warbler, p. 1019), and 

 the Water-Turkey is Plotus anhinga (Snake-BIRD, p. 880). 



WATTLE-BIRD, the name given by Cook's people to a species 

 they found during his second voyage in New Zealand (G. Forster, 

 Foy. i. p. 148), and adopted in 1781 by both Pennant (Gen. B. ed. 

 2, p. 9) and Latham {Gen. Synops. i. p. 364, pi. xiv.) for what they 

 rightly considered a new genus, Avhich was technically termed in 



1 In the copy of Belon's Portraits before mentioned (pp. 680, 913 notes) the 

 figure of Lanius excuhitor is named Warkiangle. 



- The Century Dictionary (1891) inchides the word "Waspkite" explained as 

 Pernis apivorus (Honey-BuzzARD, p. 67), but no autliority is cited for it, nor 

 does such a name seem to be known in England. There is no bird like it in 

 America. 



