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GLOSSARY 



Elk : the Hooper Swan 

 Emmer or Ember Goose : trie 



Great Northern Diver 

 Emmet Hunter : the Wryneck 

 Erne : the Eagle 



Falk or Falc : tne Razor-bill 

 Faller : the Hen Harrier 

 Fallow Chat, Fallow Finch, Fallow 

 Lunch, or Fallow Smich : the 

 Wheatear 

 Fanny Redtail : the Redstart 

 Fauvette : the Garden Warbler, 

 also applied to others of the 

 Warblers. 

 Feather-poke: i.e. "sack of 

 feathers " is the Chiff-chaff, 

 so called from the materials 

 and form of the nest 

 Felt and Feltyfare : the Fieldfare 

 Fiddler : the Common Sandpiper 

 Field Duck : the Little Bustard 

 Field Lark : the Skylark 

 Fiery Linnet : the Common Lin- 

 net 

 Finch, or Lapland Bunting 

 Fire-crested Regulus or Wren 

 Fire-tail : the Redstart 

 Flapper : a young Duck 

 Flopwing : the Lapwing 

 Flusher : the Butcher-bird 

 Foot : The foot of a bird consists 

 of four, never less than three, 

 toes, with their claws, and the 

 joint next above, called the 

 " tarsus " 

 French Linnet : the Redpoll 



Magpie : the Red-backed 



Shrike 

 Pie : the Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker. 



Gaggle : a flight of Wild Geese 

 Gairfowl : the Auk and the 

 Razorbill 



Gallinule : the Moor Hen ; this 

 name is sometimes applied to 

 the Crakes 



Gallwell Drake : the Land Drake 



Garden Ouzel : the Blackbird 

 Warbler 



Gardenian Heron : the young of 

 the Night Heron 



Gaunt : the Crested Grebe 



Gidd : the Jack Snipe 



Gillhowter : the White Owl 



Gladdy : the Yellow Hammer 



Glaucous Gull 



Glead, Gled, or Glade : the 

 Kite 



Goat Owl and Goat-sucker : the 

 Nightjar 



Goldeneye 



Golden-crested Regulus, Warbler 

 or Wren 

 Oriole or Thrush 

 Plover 



Gorcock : the Moor Cock 



Gorsehatch : the Wheatear 



Gorse-duck : the Corn Crake 



Gorse Linnet : the Common 

 Linnet 



Goud Spink : the Goldfinch 



Gouldring : the Yellow ham- 

 mer 



Gourder : the Petrel 



Gouk : the Cuckoo 



Graduated : a term applied to 

 the tail of a bird when the 

 middle feathers are longest 

 and the outer ones are shorter 

 in gradation 



Greenwich Sandpiper : the Ruff 



Grey : the Gadwall 



Grey-bird : the Thrush 



Grey-Duck : the Gadwall 



,, Coot-footed Tringa : the 



Phalarope 



Crow : the Hooded Crow 



Falcon : the Hen Harrier 



,, Heron : common or Crested 



Heron 



