GLOSSARY 
Coldfinch: the Pied Flycatcher 
Colk: the King Duck 
Colin: a name in New Spain for 
Quail 
Compressed: flattened vertically 
Coot-foot: the Phalarope 
Copperfinch: the Chaffinch 
Corbie: the Raven 
Corndrake: the Land-Rail 
Cornish Crow, or Daw: the 
Chough 
Gannet: the Skua 
Cornwall Kae: the Chough 
Coulterneb: the Puffin 
Crake, Little 
» Spotted 
Crank bird: the Lesser Spotted 
Woodpecker 
Craw: part of the stomach in 
birds 
Cream-coloured Plover: 
foot or Courser 
Courser Gull: the Glaucous Gull 
Creeper, Creep-tree, or Tree- 
creeper. These names are in 
some places given to the Nut- 
hatch 
Crested Cormorant: the Shag 
,» Heron, Common or Grey 
Cricket-bird: the Grasshopper 
Warbler 
Cricket Teal: the Garganey 
Crooked Bill: the Avocet 
Crossbill : Common 
Cuckoo’s Leader or Mate: the 
Wryneck 
Culmen: the ridge of the upper 
mandible 
Cultrate: in the form of a bill- 
hook or pruning knife 
Curlew-Jack: the Whimbrel 
Curwillet: the Sanderling 
Cushat: the Ring Dove 
Cutty Wren: the Common Wren 
Cygnet: the young Swan 
Swift- 
Daker Hen: the Land-Rall 
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Danish Crow: the Hooded Crow 
Darr, Blue: the Black Tern 
Dertrum 
Depressed : flattened horizontally 
Deviling : the Swift 
Dick Dunnock: the Hedge Spar- 
row 
Dippearl: the Tern 
Dirty Allen: the Skua 
Dishwater: the Wagtail 
Diving Pigeon: the Guillemot 
Dobbler and Dobchick: the 
Lesser Grebe 
Door Hawk and Dorr Hawk: the 
Nightjar. 
Dorbie: the Dunlin 
Doucker: a popular name for a 
Grebe or Diver 
Doveky: the Black Guillemot 
Dove-coloured Falcon: the Pere- 
grine Falcon 
Draine: the Missel Thrush 
Duck Hawk: the Marsh Harrier 
Ducker: a popular name for a 
Grebe or Diver 
Dulwilly: the Ring Plover 
Dunkir and Dunair: the Pochard 
Dun Crow: the Hooded Crow 
Dundiver: the female and young 
of the Merganser 
Dung Hunter: the Skua 
Dunlin 
Dunnock: the Hedge Sparrow 
Earl Duck: 
Merganser 
Easterling: the Smew 
Ebb: the Bunting 
Ecorcheur: the Shrike 
Egret: a tuft of long narrow 
feathers found on the lower part 
of the neck of the Herons. The 
mame is also sometimes ex- 
tended to the two tufts of fea- 
thers, resembling ears or horns, 
in some of the Owls 
the Red-breasted 
