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GLOSSARY 



Isaas : the Hedge Sparrow 

 Ivy Owl : the Barn Owl 



Jack Curlew : the Whimbrel 

 Jackdaw 



Jack-nicker : the Goldfinch 

 Saw : the Goosander 

 ,, Snipe 

 Jar Owl : the Night Owl 

 Jay, Jay Pie, or Jay Pyet 

 Jenny : the Wren 

 Jid or Judcock : the Jack Snipe 



Kadder and Kae : the Jackdaw 

 Kamtschatka Tern : the Black 



Tern 

 Katabella : the Hen Harrier 

 Kate : the Hawfinch 

 Katogle : the Eagle Owl 

 Kiddaw : the Guillemot 

 King-Harry : the Goldfinch 

 Kip : the Tern 

 Kirktullock : the Shoveler 

 Kirmew and Kirmow : the Tern 

 Knee : a name often given, 



though inaccurately, to the 



junction of the tarsus and tibia 



of a bird. 

 Knot 



Lamhi or Lavy : the Guillemot 

 Land Curlew : the Great Plover 

 Lary : the Guillemot 

 Laughing Goose : the White- 

 fronted Goose 

 Lavrock : the Skylark 

 Leg-bird : the Sedge Warbler 

 Lesser wing-coverts : the feathers 

 which overlie the greater wing- 

 coverts, or those next the quills 

 Ling-bird : the Meadow Pipit 

 Linlet : a young Linnet 

 Lobefoot : the Phalarope 

 Long-tongue : the Wr3meck 



Loom or Loon : the Diver 

 Lore : the space between the beak 



and the eye 

 Lough Diver : the Smew 

 Lum, Lungy : the Guillemot 

 Lumme : the Diver 

 Lyre : the ]\Ianx Shearwater 



Madge H owlet : the White Owl 

 Maglowan : a name for the Divers 

 Magpie Diver : the Smew 

 Malduck, or Malmarsh : the Ful- 

 mar 

 Mallemoke : the Fulmar 

 Mandibles : upper and under, the 



two portions of a bird's bill 

 Man-of-war bird : the Skua 

 Manx Shearwater : the Manx 



Petrel 

 Marketjew Crow : the Chough 

 Marrot : the Guillemot and 



Razorbill 

 May-bird, or Ma yf owl : the Whim- 

 brel 

 Mavis : the Thrush 

 Meadow Crake, or Drake : the 

 Gallinule 

 Pipit, Titlark or Titling 

 Meggy-cut-throat : the White- 

 throat 

 Merlie : the Blackbird 

 Mew or Mow : a Gull 

 Millithrum : the Long-tailed Tit 

 Minute Gallinule : the Little 

 Crake 

 Merganser : the young 



Smew 

 Tringa, the Little Stint 

 Mire Snipe : the Snipe 

 Mistle Thrush, or MistletoeThrush 

 Mitty : the Petrel 

 Mock-bird : the Sedge Warbler 

 ,, Nightingale : the Blackcap 

 and Garden Warbler 

 Monk : the Bullfinch 

 Moor Blackbird, or Ouzel : the 

 Ring Ouzel 



