252 COCK— CORMORANT 



or cheep, cock-haiinel (house — Hulcet); Least willow wren, lesser 

 petty-chaps; Peggy; Sally-picker, saugh-j)icker ; Thummie ; 

 Willow-picker, wood-chatterer. 



COCK (see Hen). — Coileach, coileach-otraigh, etc. (see Gaelic- 

 Eng. part) ; Dreimrie (Ir.) ; Fuidsidh (fugo), craven ; Gall ; 

 Sioltaiche, smogairneach, spogairneach. 



Cockerel, coystril ; Leerie, etc. 



COCKATRICE.— Nathair-nimh-sgiathach ; Righ-nathair ; Suil- 

 mhlalair, suil-mhala-righ. 



Basilisk ; Cock-a-christ. 



A cockatrice or cockatrix is said to be generated from a 

 seven-year-old cock's egg hatched. Hence all cocks should be 

 killed before they attain that age. 



COOT. — Cearc-cheannan, cutag ; Darcan, dubh-lach ; Eun- 

 snaimhidh or snaxnhta; Uiseag-mhara, uiseag bhreac na mara. 



Bald-coot, bald-duck, bald-powt, beld-cytte, bell-kite, bel-poot, 

 black diver; Drink-a-penuy ; Gallinule, green-footed gallinule ; 

 Hawkie ; Queet, queit, quiet ; Smyth-cute, stank-hen ; Water- 

 craw, water-hen, whistling-duck, white-faced diver, moor-hen, 

 marsh-hen, coot. 



From Gaelic "cutach," short, stumpy, etc. A. S. Cote. 



As bald, or as mad as a coot, is a familiar saying. Bums 

 apostrophises this bird as the "wanton coot." 



CORMORANT. — Balaire or ballaire-bodhain, bothain or 

 boain (white-breasted), braigheall or broigheal (large white- 

 breasted), broighioll (Ir.), bun or buna-bhuachaill ; Cailleach 

 dhubh (Shag), collaire-bothainn, buthainn or boain ; Fitheach- 

 fairge or mara, fleigire ; Gairg, gairgeann, gairgear ; Learg ; 

 Mial-bhran, mona or muna-bhuachaill, mor-bhran, muir-bhran, 

 muir-bhuachaill ; Odharag, odhra, odhrag, odhra-sgairneach, orag 

 (young) ; Peata, peata-odhar ; Sgarbh, sgarbh-buill, sgarbh-a- 

 bhothain or bhuthain, sgarbh-an-uchd-ghil, sgarbh-an-sgumain, 

 sgaireag (young). 



Black cormorant, brongie or brougie (young), bump, butter- 

 bump ; Church-warden, coal or cole-goose, cormoral, corvorant, 

 cowe-en-elder (Coven or Colvend), crane, crawn, crested cormorant, 

 crue ; Gorkerel, gormaw, gormer, goulmaw, gramma w, great 

 cormorant, green cormorant, green scout ; Isle-o'-Wight parson ; 

 Kren, krean, kron ; Leering, loering (adult), lile-scart ; Mochrum 

 elder; Scaraf, scarf, scarp, scart, scarth, scarve, scout, serath, 

 seratt, scurrie, sea crow or raven, shag ; Tufted scart or skart ; 

 White-headed cormorant, white-spot cormorant, wool-cottar. 



The term " Ballaire," etc., is obviously from the word, "ball," 





