GLOSSARY 
Grey Lapwing, or Sandpiper: the 
Grey Plover 
» Linnet: the Common Linnet 
» Owl: the White Owl 
» Partridge: the Common 
Partridge 
» ohrike, Lesser: the Ash- 
coloured Shrike 
» okit: the Water-Rail 
» lag: Fen, Stubble, or Wild 
Goose 
Grisette : the Whitethroat 
Ground Lark: the Pipit and 
Bunting 
by Wren: the Willow War- 
bler 
Guldenhead: the Puffin 
Gull-tormentor: the Skua 
Gunner: the Great Northern 
Diver 
Gurfel: the Razorbill 
Gustarda: the Bustard 
Hackbolt : the Greater Shear- 
water 
Hadji: the Swift 
Hagdown: the Greater Shear- 
water 
Haggard: the Peregrine Falcon 
Hagister: the Magpie 
Half-Curlew : the Whimbrel and 
Godwit 
» -Duck: the Wigeon, Po- 
chard, etc. 
» -onipe: the Jack Snipe 
Harle: the Red-breasted Mer- 
ganser 
Harpy: the Marsh Harrier 
Hawk Owl: this name {is some- 
times given to the Short-eared 
Owl 
Hay-bird, or Hay-Tit: the Willow 
* Warbler 
Hay-Jack: the Garden War- 
bler and Whitethroat 
Heather Bleater: the Snipe 
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Heath Throstle: the Ring Ouzel 
Hebridal Sandpiper: the Turn- 
stone 
Heckimal: the Blue Tit 
Hedge-Chicken: the Wheatear 
» Jug, the Long-tailed Tit 
Hegrilskip : the Heron 
Helegug: the Puffin 
Hellejay: the Razor-bill 
Hern, Hernshaw, Heronshaw : the 
Heron 
Heronsewgh: the Heron 
Herring-bar: perhaps a corrup- 
tion of Herring-bird, Diver 
Herring Gant: the Gannet 
oy Gall 
Hew-hole: the Woodpecker 
Hickwall: the Lesser Spotted 
Woodpecker 
High-hoo: the Woodpecker 
Hiogga: the Razor-bill 
Hissing Owl: the White Owl 
Hoarse Gowk: the Snipe 
Hoddy: the Crow 
Holm Cock and Holm Screech: 
the Mistle Thrush 
Hoop: the Bullfinch 
Hornfinch: the Petrel 
Horniwinks: the Lapwing 
Horra: the Brent Goose 
Horsefinch ;: the Chaffinch 
Horsmatch: the MJRed-backed 
Shrike, the Wheatear and Whin- 
chat 
Howlet: the Brown Owl 
Howster: the Knot 
Huckmuck: the Long-tailed Tit 
Hullat: the Owl 
Icebird: the Little Auk 
Imber, or Great Northern Diver 
Isle of Wight Parson: the Cor- 
morant 
Iris (plural, Irides) : the coloured 
circle of the eye surrounding 
the pupil 
