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GLOSSARY 



Piet, Water : the Water Ouzel 



Pigeon Hawk : the Sparrow Hawk 



Mow, Red-legged : the 



Blackheaded Gull in its 



winter plumage 



Pigmy Curloo, or Sandpiper 



Pine Bullfinch, or Pine Grosbeak 



Pink : the Chaffinch 



Pink-footed Goose 



Pinnock : a Tit 



Pint : the Laughing Gull 



Pintail Duck 



Pirenet : the Sheldrake 



Plover's Page : the Purple Sand- 

 piper 



Poke-Pudding : the Long-tailed 

 Tit 



Pocker, or Poker : the Pochard 



Pomarine Skua, or Gull, Twist- 

 tailed 



Poor-willie : the God wit 



Pop : the Redwing 



Pope : the Pufhn 



Popinjay : the Green Wood- 

 pecker 



Port-Egmont Hen : the Common 

 Skua 



Post-bird : the Spotted Fly- 

 catcher 



Provence Furzel : the Dartford 

 Warbler 



Proud-tailor : the Goldfinch 



Puckeridge : the Nightjar 



Pudding-poke : the Long-tailed 

 Tit 



Puffin 



Puffinet : the Black Guillemot 



Purple Sandpiper 



Pur re : the Dunlin 



Puttock : the Buzzard and Kite 



Pywipe : the Lapwing 



Primaries : the quills, usually 

 ten, of the terminal joint of 

 a bird's wing. 



Que : the Night Heron 

 Quaketail : the Wagtail 



Queest or Quest : the Ring-dove 

 Queet : the Coot and Guillemot 

 Quills : the large feathers of the 

 wing, called primary, or digital ; 

 secondary or cubital ; and 

 tertiary, or humeral ; accord- 

 ing as they arise from the ter- 

 minal, middle, or inner joint 

 Quill-coverts : a row of feathers 

 immediately covering the base 

 of the quills above and below, 

 and therefore called upper and 

 under 

 Quinck : the Goose 



Rafter-bird : the Spotted Fly- 

 catcher 

 Rail, Land 



Rain-bird : the Green Wood- 

 pecker 

 ,, -Goose : the Red-throated 

 Diver 

 Raptores : Birds of Prey 

 Rasores : Gallinaceous Birds 

 Rattle-wings : the Golden- 

 eye 

 Redcap : the Goldfinch 

 Red Godwit : the Bar-ta iled 

 God wit 

 Grouse 

 Red-headed Linnet : the Common 

 Linnet and Redpoll 

 ,, Pochard : the Common Po- 

 chard 

 ,, Wigeon : the Common Wigeon 

 ,, Hoop : the Bullfinch 

 ,, -legged Crow : the Chough 

 ,, ,, Godwit : the Spotted 



Sandpiper 

 ,, ,, Gull, the Black-headed 

 Gull 

 Partridge 

 ,, -necked Coot-foot, Lobe-foot, 

 or Phalarope 

 Red Sandpiper : the Knot in itsi. 

 suminer plumage 



