GLOSSARY 
Moor Hen, or Water Hen 
Morrot: the Guillemot 
Moss-cheeper: the Meadow Pipit 
Mother Carey’s Chickens: the 
Petrels 
Mountain Linnet: the Twite 
i Ouzel : the Ring Ouzel 
Mouse Hawk or Owl: the Hawk 
Owl 
Mow: a Gull 
Mud-plover: the Grey Plover 
Muggy: the Whitethroat 
Mullet: the Puffin 
Mumruffin: the Long-tailed Tit 
Murdering-bird: the Butcher- 
bird 
Nape: the upper part of the neck 
behind 
Neck-a-pecker and Nickle: the 
Woodpecker 
Night-crow, or Night-hawk: the 
Nightjar 
» Heron 
Nope: the Bullfinch 
Norfolk Plover: the Great Plover 
Norie: the Cormorant 
Northern Crow : the Hooded Crow 
Norway Lark: the Snow Bunting 
Nun: the Blue Tit 
Oke: 
Olive : 
Olive-tufted Duck: 
eye 
Operculum: a lid or covering 
Orbit: the skin that surrounds 
the eye, and in some birds is 
destitute of feathers 
Ouzel, Water, or Dipper 
Oven-bird: the Chiff-Chaff, Wil- 
low Warbler, and Wood Warbler 
Owl, Long-eared or Horned 
», Short-eared or Little-horned 
» Tawny or Brown 
the Auk 
the Oyster-catcher 
the Golden- 
315 
Padge and Padge Owl: the Barn 
Owl 
Palmipedes : Web-footed Birds 
Pandle-whew : the Wigeon 
Parasitic Gull: the Skua 
Parrot, Ailsa: the Puffin 
- Sea: the Puffin 
Parson Mew: the Black-backed 
Gull 
Passerine : belonging to the order 
Passeres 
» Warbler: the Garden 
Warbler 
Pea-finch: the Chaffinch 
Pearl: the Tern 
Pease Crow: the Tern 
Peck: the Bar-tailed Godwit 
Pectinated : cut like a comb 
Peese-weep: the Peewit, also 
sometimes given to the Green- 
finch 
Peggy: the Wren, Whitethroat 
and the Garden Warbler 
Peggy cut-throat: the White- 
throat 
Petrel: the name Petrel is in 
some places given to the God- 
wit 
Pettychaps, Greater: the Garden 
Warbler 
PA Lesser : the Chiff-chaff 
Philomel: the Nightingale 
Pianet: the Magpie, and Oyster- 
catcher 
Picarini : 
Pick-cheese : 
Great Tit 
Pickmire : the Black-headed Gull 
Picktarney and Picket: the Tern 
Pictarn: the Black-headed Gull 
Pie, Sea: the Oyster-catcher 
Pied Diver: the Smew 
» Wagtail 
» Wigeon: the Garganey, and 
Goldeye 
Pie-finch: the Chaffinch 
Pienet and Piet: the Magpie 
the Avocet 
the Tom-Tit and 
