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Tflock) ; Darag-thalmhainn (a kind of) ; Ealt, ealta^ ealtainn 

 (flock)j ean (pi. in Ir., eanachaibh, eathaide, and eathaidh), ell 

 (flock)j en, eun (pi. eunlaith), eunan-ar (prey), eun-uasal (rare or 

 foreign), eun-uisge (water) ; Fairig (dead), faoghaideach, faoghalach 

 faolach (carnivorous, prey), fideag (small), fion-eun (small), foirthir 

 (passage) ; Gabhar (old), gall-eun (foreign), gearcach (nestling), 

 gearcuig (brood), goillire, gramasgar (flock), grunnan (group of), 

 gugarlach (useless), gur (brood), guraiceach (unfledged) ; lal, iall 

 (flock), ian, iar, idhen (Corn.), isean (young) ; Lachar (large), 

 lampar (unfledged). Ion ; Mionta (small — Old Ir.), mol (flock) ; 

 Peacarach (prey — a sinner); Roisgean, ruisgean (unfledged); 

 Scallachan, sgallachan (unfledged), sgaoigh, sgaoth (flock or rout 

 of), sgugairneach (useless), stein (flock — Ir. for stuaidhean), 

 stuaidh (flock or folk) ; Todhan, troghan, troghan (prey). 



Balchin, balching, batching, bolchin (unfledged), belcher, 

 billy, brancher (young), bub (unfledged) ; Cricklet (weakest) ; 

 Dicky, dickybird, dow-pig (last hatched — North), drift (a flock — 

 North) ; Earock, eerock, eirack, erack, crock, erok, errack, errock, 

 yearock (one-year old); Flaag (flock); Garb, garbel, gorb, gorbet, 

 gorblet, gorblin, gorbling, gordlin, gorling (young), gobby (newly 

 hatched), goes, goit (unfledged), golliii, gollock, golly, gorp, 

 gullin ; Jeegler (unfledged) ; Ness-cock, nesslecock, nestcock 

 (unfledged) ; Pelt (killed by a hawk) ; Quab, quiller (unfledged) ; 

 Seamels (Shakespeare), squelch-bub (unfledged) ; Wache (flock 

 of), werdie (weakest in brood). 



This word is said to be from Anglo-Saxon "Bridde," the 

 young, the brood. In Gaelic " lal " is supposed to be " al," 

 really "the thing bred," while a bird-skin is (in Old Ir.) 

 Enchendaich or en-chennach ; the word " Eal-eun," a monstrous 

 bird, is, according to Whitley Stokes, derived from "eallamh," 

 wonder, astonishment, but this is not the meaning in Scottish 

 Gaelic of that word either in Armstrong or Macleod and Dewar ; 

 en-flaith is also given as "bird-realm," a blessed spot. 



A metrical list of birds as found in an MS. of the fifteenth 

 century, now in the British Museum, may be of interest here : — 



'• To-day in the dawnyng 



I hyrde the fowles sing. 



The names of them it likyt me to myng — 



The parterigge, the fesant and the sterlyng, 



The quayle, and the goldefyng and the lapwyng. 



The thrusche, the maveys, and the wodewale, 



The jaye, the popinjaye, and the nyghtyngale, 



The notthache, the swallow, and the sernow, 



The chawze, the cucko, cocow, 



The rooke, the revyn, and the crow, 



Among all the fowles that maden gle, 



The rere-mouse and the owle could I not see. " 



The following are some terms for birds, etc., viz. : — A covey of 



