GLOSSARY 



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Stone-smirch : the Wheatear 



Stork, White 



Storm Cock : the Missel Thrush 

 Petrel, or Storm Finch 



Straney : the Guillemot 



Summer Snipe : the Sandpiper 

 ,, Teal : the Garganey 

 , Duck, or Sheldrake : the 

 Long-tailed Duck 



Sweet William : the Goldfinch 



Swiftfoot : the Courser 



Swimmer, Little : the Phalarope 



Swine-pipe : the Redwing 



Tail-coverts : upper and under, 

 feathers covering the basal 

 portion of the tail feathers above 

 and below 



Tailor, Proud : the Goldfinch 



Tammie Cheekie and Tammie 

 Norie : the Puffin 



Tang-waup : the Whimbrel 



Tangle-picker : the Turnstone 



Taring, Tarrot : the Tern 



Tarrock : the young of the Kitti- 

 wake Gull 



Tarse : the male Falcon, a name 

 used in falconry 



Tarsus : the bone of a bird's 

 foot next above the toes. In 

 a domestic fowl the tarsus is the 

 portion between what is called 

 the " drumstick " and the toes ; 

 the shank 



Tatler : a Sandpiper 



Teal Cricket : the Garganey 



Teaser : the Skua 



Teewit : the Peewit 



Tertiaries : the quills which spring 

 from the third or inner joint of 

 a bird's wing 



Thistlefinch : the Goldfinch 



Three-Toed Sandgrouse 



Thrice-cock : the Mistle Thrush 



Throstle : the Thrush 



Tibia : the joint of a bird's leg 



next above the tarsus ; the 



" drumstick." 

 Tick : the Whinchat 

 Tidley : the Wren 

 Tinkershere, or Tinker's hue : 



the Guillemot 

 Tippet Grebe : the Crested Grebe 

 Titlark, and Titling : the Meadow 

 Pipit, 

 Sea : ''the Rock Pipit 

 Tom Pudding : the Dabchick 

 Tommy Norie : the Puffin 

 Tomtit : the Blue Tit 

 Tony Hoop : the Bullfinch 

 Tope : the Wren 

 Tom Harry : the Skua 

 Tor-Ouzel : the Ring Ouzel 

 Towilly : the Sanderling 

 Tonite : the Wood Warbler 

 Tree Pipit, or Lark 



,, Sparrow 



,, Sheeler : the Tree Creeper 

 Tuchit : the Lapwing Plover 

 Tufted Duck 

 Tuliac : the Skua 

 Turkey-bird : the Wryneck 

 Turtle, Sea : the Guillemot and 



Ricke 

 Twink : the Chaffinch 

 Twit Lark : the ^leadow Pipit 

 Tystie : the Black Guillemot 



Ulnia : the Tawny Owl 



Under tail-coverts : the feathers 



which overlap the base of the 



tail beneath 

 Under wing-coverts : the feathers 



which cover the wings beneath 

 Upper tail-coverts : the feathers 



which overlap the base of the 



tail above 

 Upper wing-coverts : the feathers 



which overlap the base of the 



quills 

 Utick : the Whinchat 



