266 DIVER— DOVE 



float listlessly and in a most ungainly manner. They never use 

 their wings under water, as do guillemots, auks, puffins, etc. 

 The monks of old paid this bird special notice, and dubbed it 

 " Bishop." The black-throated diver's cry is said to sound, in 

 Gaelic, " Deoch, deoch, deoch 's an loch a' traghadh," drink, drink, 

 drink, the loch is ebbing. 



DOTTEREL (see Snipe).— Amadan-mointich. 



DOVE. — Caidhean (turtle), calaman, calaman-coille (ring), 

 calaman-fiadhaich (or fiadh-cholum), calaman gorm, calaman-nan- 

 creag (rock), calaman-mara, calaman-tuchan, caiman, calman- 

 cathaidh (moulting), ciad-cholum (Ir.), colgan, colm, colman, 

 colman-coille, colman-gobhlach (fantail), colum, columan, colum- 

 creige; Duradan; Eidhion ; Faran, fearan (turtle), fearan-breac ; 

 Gearrcach, grib-cholum (feather-footed), guragag, guragan ; Smud, 

 smudan (ring, etc.) ; Turtur. 



Blue-dove (rock), bush-dove; Cheeter (young), cod-pigeon 

 (rough), commonack, coo-me-doo or door (turtle), cooscot, covloor, 

 cowprise, cowshots, erooding-doo, crowde-doo, cruchet (wood), 

 culfre, culver, culvere (A. S. and Devon), cuscote (white-backed), 

 cush, cusha, cusha-dove, cushat, cushie-doo, cushot ; Doo, dow, 

 douffe (Lydgate), dowve (A. S.), duffer (cross-bred), duffy-doo; 

 Pejon (Lydgate), pigeon, pud-dow, puddie-doo ; Quease, queest, 

 quest, quice (Glouc), quist, quoist ; Ring-dove, rock-dove ; Sea- 

 j)igeon, sod (rock), stock-dove, stok-dowe (wood), stoke-dowef 

 (A. S.) ; Timmer-doo, turtle, turtle-dove, turtour, turture ; Wood- 

 dove or pigeon, wood quest, etc., wrekin, wudu-culfre, etc. (A. S.) ; 

 Yron ; Zoo-zoo. 



The name "pigeon" is from Latin pipire, to peep; "turtle," 

 from Latin turtur, imitative of the note. The ring-dove is sup- 

 posed to say — in some English-speaking localities only — three 

 times, " I do love you, dear Katie " ; and that it finishes with, " I 

 zvill love you, dear Katie — Yes." There are numerous names or 

 terms for doves given by their breeders and fanciers which are 

 not given here. Caiman or columan is said to be calm eun, the 

 brave bird. There be many different kinds of this brave bird not 

 known to or named by our Celtic forefathers, and this is no place 

 for referring further to them than to say that the flight of the 

 dove was noted of old as now, though not noted statistically ; as, 

 for instance, we find it now recorded that the carrier pigeon flies 

 at the rate of 88 feet 6 in. per second. 



A famous Celtic writer, who flourished, or at least existed, ii 

 1498 — Macmanus — is described in an obituary notice of that date as| 

 " a dove in purity of heart, and a turtle in chastity," or, an colui 

 an gloine cridhe, agus an turtur an ionraca. 



In that sweetest of songs by William Ross, " Brughaicheai 

 Ghlinne-Braon," as given in the " Gesto " collection of Gaelic airs 



