GLOSSARY 



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Goldfinch : the Pied Flycatcher 



Colk : the King Duck 



Colin : a name in New Spain for 



Quail 

 Compressed : flattened vertically 

 Coot-foot : the Phalarope 

 Copperfinch : the Chaffinch 

 Corbie : the Raven 

 Corndrake : the Land-Rail 

 Cornish Crow, or Daw : the 



Chough 

 Gannet : the Skua 

 Cornwall Kae : the Chough 

 Coulterneb : the Pufhn 

 Crake, Little 



Spotted 

 Crank bird : the Lesser Spotted 



Woodpecker 

 Craw : part of the stomach in 



birds 

 Cream-coloured Plover : Swift- 

 foot or Courser 

 Courser Gull : the Glaucous Gull 

 Creeper, Creep-tree, or Tree- 

 creeper. These names are in 

 some places given to the Nut- 

 hatch 

 Crested Cormorant : the Shag 



Heron, Common or Grey 

 Cricket-bird : the Grasshopper 



Warbler 

 Cricket Teal : the Garganey 

 Crooked Bill : the Avocet 

 Crossbill : Common 

 Cuckoo's Leader or Mate : the 



Wryneck 

 Culmen : the ridge of the upper 



mandible 

 Cultrate : in the form of a bill- 

 hook or pruning knife 

 Curlew- Jack : the Whimbrel 

 Curwillet : the Sanderling 

 Cushat : the Ring Dove 

 Cutty Wren : the Common Wren 

 Cygnet : the young Swan 



Daker Hen : the Land-Rail 



Danish Crow : the Hooded Crow 



Darr, Blue : the Black Tern 



Dertrum 



Depressed : flattened horizontally 



Deviling : the Swift 



Dick Dunnock : the Hedge Spar- 

 row 



Dippearl : the Tern 



Dirty Allen : the Skua 



Dishwater : the Wagtail 



Diving Pigeon : the Guillemot 



Dobbler and Dobchick : the 

 Lesser Grebe 



Door Hawk and Dorr Hawk : the 

 Nightjar. 



Dorbie : the Dunlin 



Doucker : a popular name for a 

 Grebe or Diver 



Doveky : the Black Guillemot 



Dove-coloured Falcon : the Pere- 

 grine Falcon 



Draine : the Missel Thrush 



Duck Hawk : the Marsh Harrier 



Ducker : a popular name for a 

 Grebe or Diver 



Dulwilly : the Ring Plover 



Dunkir and Dunair : the Pochard 



Dun Crow : the Hooded Crow 



Dundiver : the female and young 

 of the Aferganser 



Dung Hunter : the Skua 



Dunlin 



Dunnock : the Hedge Sparrow- 



Earl Duck : the Red-breasted 

 Merganser 



Easterling : the Smew 



Ebb : the Bunting 



Ecorcheur : the Shrike 



Egret : a tuft of long narrow 

 feathers found on the lower part 

 of the neck of the Herons. The 

 name is also sometimes ex- 

 tended to the two tufts of fea- 

 thers, resembling ears or horns, 

 in some of the Owls 



