248 BUNTING— BUZZARD 



sgiboil (Ir.), more prop, barn-sparrow, gola-bhigein, gualach or 

 gualachan (? gealach), white or snow one. 



Bentlark (corn), Bessy-blackcap, Billy-biter, black-bird, black- 

 bonnet, black coaly-hood, black-headed bodkin or bunting (reed), 

 brambling, briar bunting, bunt-lark, buntlin, buntling, buntling- 

 lark, busli-lark ; Chink, cirl-bunting, coal-hoodie, coaly-hood, cock 

 o' the North, common bunting, colin black-head, corn-bunting; 

 Ebb ; Ghallie (gealaidli — snow) ; Horn-bill, hornbill-bunting, horse- 

 lark ; Lark-bunting ; Moss-sparrow (reed), mountain-bunting ; 

 North-cock ; Oat-bird or fowl ; Pied-finch ; Redwing, reed-bunting, 

 reed-sparrow, ring-bird or fowl, ring-bunting ; Skite (yellow), 

 skitter broltie or brottie (Orkney), snaa-fool, snaw-fowl, snow- 

 bird, snow-bunting, snow-flake, snow-fleek, snow-flight, spang, 

 sparrow, spear; Tawny bunting, thistle-cock, thristle-cock (Ir.), 

 toad-snatcher ; Water-sparrow, white lark, white-winged lark 

 Yeldie, yeldring, yella-yorlin, yellow bunting, yellow-hammer, 

 yite. 



From Gaelic " Bun," lit. a stumpy bird. 



The black-cap bunting does not put in an appearance until 

 the month of May has begun, nearly a month later than most 

 migratory birds. The song is little inferior to that of the 

 nightingale, for which it has often been mistaken. 



BUSTARD (see also Curlew). — Coileach-Turcach fiadhaich. 



Avis tarda ; Bistard, botor ; Gustard ; Little bustard ; Thick- 

 kneed bustard. 



This bird, as well as the bittern, are extinct in most places 

 where once they were plentiful ; this is owing to the increase in 

 population. 



BUTCHER-BIRD (see Shrike). 



BUZZARD (see also Hawk). — Armhaidhe, armhuigh ; Beal 

 bhan, beilbhean-ruadh, bleidir, bleidire, bleidir-riabhach (honey 

 b.), bleidir-tonach or molach (rough-legged, large-hipped, or 

 hunchy) ; Clamhan (kite), clamhan-gobhlach (fork-tailed), clamh- 

 an-riabhach (honey b.), crom-riabhach ; Finnean, finneun ; Gearr- 

 chlamhan, gilm ; Parr or para-riabhach (honey b.), preachan-gearr ; 

 Searrach-ruadh, stannaire. 



Bald kite, bee buzzard, bee hawk, bisette, bissarte, bog-gled, 

 brown buzzard or hawk, buzzard hawk ; Capped buzzard, common 

 buzzard ; Dunpickle (North) ; Falcon ; Glade, glead, gled, gos- 

 hawk, grey Peter (honey) ; Hen-harrier, honey buzzard, honey- 

 kite ; Kite ; Moor buzzard ; Puddock, puttock ; Rough-legged 

 buzzard or falcon ; Sorner. 



The number of buzzards destroyed in Glengarry in three years, 

 1837-1840, amounted to 700. 



Bums says, " There is Satan's picture, like a buzzard gled." 



