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Vare Wigeon: the Smew 
Velvet Runner: the Water-Rail 
Wagell: the young of the Great 
Black-backed Gull 
Wall Hick: the Lesser Spotted 
Woodpecker 
Wash-dish and Washerwoman 
the Pied Wagtail 
Water-hen: the Moor-hen 
» Crow, the Dipper 
» junket : the Common Sand- 
piper 
»  Ouzel or Dipper 
» Sparrow: the Sedge War- 
bler 
» Tie: the Wagtail 
Wagtail: the Pied Wagtail 
Waxen Chatterer or Waxwing 
Wease-alley : the Skua 
Weasel Coot: the young Smew 
» Duck: the Smew 
Weet-weet: the Common Sand- 
piper 
Wellplum: the Red-headed Po- 
chard 
Whaup : 
Whautie : 
Wheel-bird, 
Nightjar 
Wheety-why: the Whitethroat 
Winthrush: the Redwing 
Whit-ile, i.e. Whittle: the Green 
Woodpecker 
Whewer: the Wigeon 
Whey-bird: the Whitethroat 
Whilk: the Scoter 
Whim: the Wigeon 
Whimbrel or May-bird 
the Curlew 
the Whitethroat 
or Wheeler: the 
Whin Linnet: the Common 
Linnet 
Whistling Plover: the Golden 
Plover 
Whistling Swan: the Whooper 
Swan 
White Baker: the Spotted Fly- 
catcher 
GLOSSARY 
White-breasted Blackbird: the 
Ring or Water Ouzel 
» faced Duck: the Pochard 
» Tinch: the Chaffiinch 
» headed Goosander: the 
Smew 
» headed Cormorant: the 
Common Cormorant 
» headed Harpy: the Moor 
Buzzard 
» Nun: the Smew 
» spot Cormorant: the 
Common Cormorant 
» «tail: the Wheatear 
» Winged Black Duck: the 
Velvet Scoter 
Whitterick : the Curlew 
Whitty-beard: the Whitethroat 
Whitwall and Witwall: the Green 
Woodpecker 
Wierangel: the Ash-coloured 
Shrike 
Willock and Willy: the Guille- 
mot 
Willow-biter : the Tomtit 
Willywicket : the Common Sand- 
piper 
Windhover and Windfanner: the 
Kestrel 
Windle, Winnard, and Wind- 
thrush: the Redwing 
Wing-coverts: several rows of 
feathers covering the basal part 
of the quills above and below, 
and called the upper and under 
wing-coverts ; the feathers out- 
side these are called the lesser 
wing-coverts 
Winglet : a process arising from 
near the base of the terminal 
joint of the wing, answering 
to the thumb in the human 
hand 
Winnel and Windle-Straw : 
Whitethroat 
Winter-bonnet : the Common Gull 
» Duck: the Pintail Duck 
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