GLOSSARY 
Stone-smirch : the Wheatear 
Stork, White 
Storm Cock: the Missel Thrush 
»  Petrel, or Storm Finch 
Straney: the Guillemot 
Summer Snipe: the Sandpiper 
» Teal: the Garganey 
a Duck, or Sheldrake: the 
Long-tailed Duck 
Sweet William : the Goldfinch 
Swiftfoot : the Courser 
Swimmer, Little: the Phalarope 
Swine-pipe: the Redwing 
Tail-coverts: upper and under, 
feathers covering the basal 
portion of the tail feathers above 
and below 
Tailor, Proud: the Goldfinch 
Tammie Cheekie and Tammie 
_ Norie: the Puffin 
Tang-waup: the Whimbrel 
Tangle-picker: the Turnstone 
Taring, Tarrot: the Tern 
Tarrock: the young of the Kitti- 
wake Gull 
Tarse: the male Falcon, a name 
used in falconry 
Tarsus: the bone of a _ bird’s 
foot next above the toes. In 
a domestic fowl the tarsus is the 
portion between what is called 
the ‘‘ drumstick ” and the toes ; 
_ the shank 
Tatler: a Sandpiper 
Teal Cricket: the Garganey 
Teaser: the Skua 
Teewit: the Peewit 
Tertiaries : the quills which spring 
from the third or inner joint of 
a bird’s wing 
Thistlefinch : the Goldfinch 
Three-Toed Sandgrouse 
Thrice-cock: the Mistle Thrush 
Throstle; the Thrush 
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Tibia: the joint of a bird’s leg 
next above the tarsus; the 
“ drumstick.” 
Tick; the Whinchat 
Tidley : the Wren 
Tinkershere, or Tinker’s hue: 
the Guillemot 
Tippet Grebe: the Crested Grebe 
Titlark, and Titling : the Meadow 
Pipit 
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Tom Pudding: the Dabchick 
Tommy Norie: the Puffin 
Tomtit : the Blue Tit 
Tony Hoop: the Bullfinch 
Tope: the Wren 
Tom Harry: the Skua 
Tor-Ouzel: the Ring Ouzei 
Towilly : the Sanderling 
Tonite: the Wood Warbler 
Tree Pipit, or Lark 
» Sparrow 
» Sheeler: the Tree Creeper 
Tuchit: the Lapwing Plover 
Tufted Duck 
Tuliac: the Skua 
Turkey-bird : the Wryneck 
Turtle, Sea: the Guillemot and 
Ricke 
Twink: the Chaffinch 
Twit Lark: the Meadow Pipit 
Tystie : the Black Guillemot 
Ulnia: the Tawny Owl 
Under tail-coverts: the feathers 
which overlap the base of the 
tail beneath 
Under wing-coverts : the feathers 
which cover the wings beneath 
Upper tail-coverts: the feathers 
which overlap the base of the 
tail above 
Upper wing-coverts : the feathers 
which overlap the base of the 
quills 
Utick : the Whinchat 
