PROVINCIAL NAMES. 23 



will be useful in enabling their identification, should 

 word be brought that a certain fowl has been shot, 

 or is offered for sale by some poor shooter, who 

 only knows his capture by its provincial name : 



Sheldrake Burrow Duck, Bar Duck, Shell-goose, 



Sand-goose, Mussel Duck. 



Wild Duck Mountain Duck, Coarse Duck, Heavy 



Duck, Mallard, Harvest Duck, Gross 

 Duck. 



Wigeon Golden-crested Wigeon, Yellow Head. 



Pintail Spear Wigeon, Lady Duck, Sea Pheasant. 



Gad wall Grey Duck, Brown Duck. 



Shoveller Scupper-bill, Spoonbill, Shovel-bill. 



Longtailed Duck Long-tailed Sheldrake. 



Teal Little Wigeon. 



Scaup Bridle Duck, Blue-bill, Black Diver, Diving 



Wigeon, Spoonbill. 



Pochard Red-headed Diver (or Wigeon), Poker, Bog 



Wigeon, Winnard, Diving Wigeon. 



Goldeneye Magpie Diver (or Wigeon), Morillon. (The 



young and females,) Whistle-wing, 

 Painted Duck. 



Tufted Duck Little Black Diver, White-sided Diver. 



Scoter Black Duck. 



Merganser Saw-bill (from its teeth), Shelduck (inland 



only), Crested Diver, Fishing Duck, Sand 

 Harlin, Spear Wigeon, Scale Duck. 



Smew White Wigeon, Weasel Wigeon, White Nun. 



Goosander Diving Goose, Fishing Goose. 



Bean Goose Bog Goose. 



Brent Goose Bernicle, Sea Bernicle, Black Goose, Sea 



Goose. 



Bernicle Goose White-fronted Bernicle, Land Bernicle, 



Northern Bernicle, Clakis. 



Whitefronted Goose . . . Tortoise-shell Goose, Barred Goose, Laugh- 

 ing Goose. 



Graylag Goose Swan Goose, Grey Goose. 



Great Northern Diver. ) Speckled Diver, Sea Loon, Ducker, Hol- 



Red-throated Diver . . ) lands Hawk. 



Grebes (the larger) .... Loons. 



Little Grebe Dipper, Dabchick, Puffin (inland). 



Golden Plover Grey Plover, Black-breasted Plover. 



Grey Plover . . Shore-cock, Sand-cock, Sea-cock. 



