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Elk: the Hooper Swan 
Emmer or Ember Goose: 
Great Northern Diver 
Emmet Hunter: the Wryneck 
Erne: the Eagle 
the 
Falk or Fale: the Razor-bill 
Faller: the Hen Harrier 
Fallow Chat, Fallow Finch, Fallow 
Lunch, or Fallow Smich: the 
Wheatear 
Fanny Redtail: the MRedstart 
Fauvette: the Garden Warbler, 
also applied to others of the 
Warblers. 
Feather-poke: fe. “sack of 
feathers”? is the Chiff-chaff, 
so called from the materials 
and form of the nest 
Felt and Feltyfare: the Fieldfare 
Fiddler: the Common Sandpiper 
Field Duck: the Little Bustard 
Field Lark: the Skylark 
Fiery Linnet: the Common Lin- 
net 
Finch, or Lapland Bunting 
Fire-crested Regulus or Wren 
Fire-tail: the Redstart 
Flapper: a young Duck 
Flopwing: the Lapwing 
Flusher: the Butcher-bird 
Foot: The foot of a bird consists 
of four, never less than three, 
toes, with their claws, and the 
joint next above, called the 
“tarsus ”” 
French Linnet: the Redpoll 
» Magpie: the Red-backed 
Shrike 
» Pie: the Great Spotted 
Woodpecker. 
Gaggle ; 
Gairfowl : 
Razorbill 
a flight of Wild Geese 
the Auk and the 
GLOSSARY 
Gallinule: the Moor Hen; this 
name is sometimes applied to 
the Crakes 
Gallwell Drake: the Land Drake 
Garden Ouzel: the Blackbird 
» Warbler 
Gardenian Heron: the young of 
the Night Heron 
Gaunt: the Crested Grebe 
Gidd: the Jack Snipe 
Gillhowter: the White Owl 
Gladdy: the Yellow Hammer 
Glaucous Gull 
Glead, Gled, or Glade: 
Kite 
Goat Owl and Goat-sucker : 
Nightjar 
Goldeneye 
Golden-crested Regulus, Warbler 
or Wren 
Oriole or Thrush 
3) »elover 
Gorcock: the Moor Cock 
Gorsehatch: the Wheatear 
Gorse-duck: the Corn Crake 
Gorse Linnet: the Common 
Linnet 
Goud Spink: the Goldfinch 
the 
the 
Gouldring: the Yellow Ham- 
mer 
Gourder: the Petrel 
Gouk: the Cuckoo 
Graduated: a term applied to 
the tail of a bird when the 
middle feathers are longest 
and the outer ones are shorter 
in gradation 
Greenwich Sandpiper : 
Grey: the Gadwall 
Grey-bird: the Thrush 
Grey-Duck: the Gadwall 
the Ruff 
» Coot-footed Tringa: the 
Phalarope 
» Crow: the Hooded Crow 
» Falcon: the Hen Harrier 
»» Heron: common or Crested 
Heron 
