GLOSSARY 



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(rfey Lapwing, or Sandpiper : the 

 Grey Plover 

 ,, Linnet: the Common Linnet 

 ,, Owl : the White Owl 

 ,, Partridge : the Common 



Partridge 

 ,, Shrike, Lesser : the Ash- 

 coloured Shrike 

 ,, Skit : the Water-Rail 



-lag : Fen, Stubble, or Wild 

 Goose 

 Grisette : the Whitethroat 

 Ground Lark : the Pipit and 

 Bunting 

 ,, Wren : the Willow War 

 bier 

 Guldenhead : the Puffin 

 Gull-tormentor : the Skua 

 Gunner : the Great Northern 



Diver 

 Gurfel : the Razorbill 

 Gustarda : the Bustard 



Hackbolt : the Greater Shear- 

 water 



Hadji : the Swift 



Hagdown : the Greater Shear- 

 water 



Haggard : the Peregrine Falcon 



Hagister : the Magpie 



Half-Curlew : the Whimbrel and 

 Godwit 

 ,, -Duck : the Wigeon, Po- 

 chard, etc. 

 ,, -Snipe : the Jack Snipe 



Harle : the Red-breasted Mer- 

 ganser 



Harpy : the Marsh Harrier 



Hawk Owl : this name is some- 

 times given to the Short-eared 

 Owl 



Hay-bird, or Hay-Tit : the Willow 

 Warbler 



Hay- Jack : the Garden War- 

 bler and Whitethroat 



Heather Bleater : the Snipe 



Heath Throstle : the Ring Ouzel 

 Hebridal Sandpiper : the Turn- 

 stone 

 Heckimal : the Blue Tit 

 Hedge-Chicken : the Wheatear 



-Jug. the Long- tailed Tit 

 Hegrilskip ; the Heron 

 Helegug : the Puffin 

 Hellejay : the Razor-bill 

 Hern, Hernshaw, Heronshaw : the 



Heron 

 Heronsewgh : the Heron 

 Herring-bar : perhaps a corrup- 

 tion of Herring-bird, Diver 

 Herring Gant : the Gannet 



Gull 

 Hew-hole : the Woodpecker 

 Hickwall : the Lesser Spotted 



Woodpecker 

 High-hoc : the Woodpecker 

 Hiogga : the Razor-bill 

 Hissing Owl : the White Owl 

 Hoarse Gowk : the Snipe 

 Hoddy : the Crow 

 Holm Cock and Holm Screech : 



the Mistle Thrush 

 Hoop : the Bullfinch 

 Hornfinch : the Petrel 

 Horniwinks : the Lapwing 

 Horra : the Brent Goose 

 Horsefinch : the Chaffinch 

 Horsmatch : the Red-backed 

 Shrike, the Wheatear and Whin- 

 chat 

 H owlet : the Brown Owl 

 Howster : the Knot 

 Huckmuck : the Long-tailed Tit 

 Hullat : the Owl 



Icebird : the Little Auk 



Imber, or Great Northern Diver 



Isle of Wight Parson : the Cor- 

 morant 



Iris {plural, Irides) : the coloured 

 circle of the eye surrounding 

 the pupil 



