54 BltlTISII BIRDS. [vol. vi. 



Junco, a biid with a black head, called Cole-hooding. It 



nests among rushes [the Reed-Bunting]. 

 Titlinga, Titling, or Moss-cheeper. Is this a species of 



Cur rue a ? 

 A crested bird like a sparrow, 

 A bird with a yellow head, with a red spot, it lives near 



the water. 

 A black bird, with a white spot on its breast. It is the 



size of a starling, sings and swims. Is this the Merula 



Aquatica '! [Possibly the Dipper.] 

 A bird larger than a quail, of the same colour, its beak 



is three inches long and is curved. 

 A bird of an ash-grey colour, larger than a lark, with a 



red head — it frequents water and is called the Pickerel. 

 A Moor fowl marked with white spots, of most excellent 



flavour. 

 A sea bird called the Sea-Coulter. [Possibly the Puffin, 



the word Coulter — a plough-share — being used to 



describe the shape of the Puffin's beak.] 

 A sea bird called Taster. [Mr. Gladstone thinks this may 



be the Black Guillemot. Swainson, Provincial names 



of British Birds, gives p. 219 Tystie as its local name 



in the Orkneys and Shetlands.] 

 A sea bird called the Sea-Cock. 

 A web-footed bird with a flat beak of scarlet colour ; this 



bird is of ash-grey colour, and is smaller than a quail. 

 A bird called Lyra by the people of the Orkneys, larger 



than a plover and smaller than a duck, it is very fat, 



and of a fishy flavour. [Swainson, p. 212, gives Lyi'e 



as the local name of the Manx Shearwater in the 



Orkneys.] 

 Harle, a web-footed bird larger than a duck. Is this the 



Merganser V [vide under Merganser, " Harle of Bellon, 



the Goosander."] 



A bird of a black colour in the back, smaller than the 

 domestic duck, living on fish, and called Smlefanger. 



A web-footed bird with a beak like a Heron's, it is found 

 in the Orkneys. 



The Cockandy, a web-footed bird equal in size to the 

 goose, of a grey colour. [Cockandy is given l)y Swain- 

 son, p. 220, as the local name of the Puffin in Fife.] 



The Badock, a large sea bird of a black colour [the 

 Common Skua]. 



