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Piet, Water: the Water Ouzel 
Pigeon Hawk : the Sparrow Hawk 
» Mow, Red-legged: the 
Blackheaded Gull in its 
winter plumage 
Pigmy Curloo, or Sandpiper 
Pine Bullfinch, or Pine Grosbeak 
Pink: the Chaffinch 
Pink-footed Goose 
Pinnock: a Tit 
Pint: the Laughing Gull 
Pintail Duck 
Pirenet: the Sheldrake 
Plover’s Page: the Purple Sand- 
piper 
Poke-Pudding : 
Tit 
Pocker, or Poker: the Pochard 
Pomarine Skua, or Gull, Twist- 
tailed 
Poor-willie: the Godwit 
Pop: the Redwing 
Pope: the Puffin 
Popinjay: the Green Wood- 
pecker 
Port-Egmont Hen: the Common 
Skua 
Post-bird : 
catcher 
Provence Furzel : 
Warbler 
Proud-tailor: the Goldfinch 
Puckeridge: the Nightjar 
Pudding-poke: the Long-tailed 
Tit ‘ 
Puffin 
Puffinet: the Black Guillemot 
Purple Sandpiper 
Purre: the Dunlin 
Puttock: the Buzzard and Kite 
Pywipe: the Lapwing 
Primaries: the quills, usually 
ten, of the terminal joint of 
a bird’s wing. 
the Long-tailed 
the Spotted Fly- 
the Dartford 
Que: the Night Heron 
Quaketail: the Wagtail 
GLOSSARY 
Queest or Quest: the Ring-dove 
Queet: the Coot and Guillemot 
Quills: the large feathers of the 
wing, called primary, or digital ; 
secondary or cubital; and 
tertiary, or humeral ; 
ing as they arise from the ter- 
minal, middle, or inner joint 
Quill-coverts: a row of feathers 
immediately covering the base 
of the quills above and below, 
and therefore called upper and 
under 
Quinck: the Goose 
Rafter-bird : 
catcher 
Rail, Land 
Rain-bird : 
pecker 
»» -Goose : 
Diver 
Raptores: Birds of Prey 
the Spotted Fly- 
the Green Wood- 
the Red-throated 
Rasores: Gallinaceous Birds 
Rattle-wings: the Golden- 
eye 
Redcap: the Goldfinch 
Red Godwit: the Bar-tailed 
Godwit 
» Grouse 
Red-headed Linnet : the Common 
Linnet and Redpoll 
» Pochard: the Common Po- 
chard 
» Wigeon : the Common Wigeon 
» Hoop: the Bullfinch 
» -legged Crow: the Chough 
Godwit: the Spotted 
Sandpiper 
Gull, the Black-headed 
Gull 
Grn ay Partridge 
» -necked Coot-foot, Lobe-foot, 
or Phalarope 
Red Sandpiper: the Knot in its 
summer plumage 
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