FALCON— FINCH 273 



Greenland falcon, grucher, gjv falcon ; Heavel-havoc (A. S.), 

 hobby, hunting hawk ; Icelandic falcon ; Jer or jar-falcon, jerkin ; 

 Kestril ; Lannard (peregrine) ; Merlin ; Peregrine (wandering) ; 

 Red-footed falcon ; Sacre, saker, stock-hawk ; Tassel, tercel, 

 tersil, tessil, tirsel (male) ; van-winged hawk (fan) ; Wanderer, 

 wandering falcon (peregrine) ; Wealh-havoc (A. S.), wheel-hawk. 



Falcon comes from "falc," a sickle; curved clawed. The 

 word eireach or eirreach (Ir. errach) is supposed to mean 

 the riser or ascender, and is thought to mean the sea-eagle 

 also (W. S.). 



There are six species in Great Britain, viz., Ger or gyr, 

 peregrine, hobby, red-footed, black-headed, and kestrel. Falcons 

 are deemed and termed "noble," other hawks, and even eagles — 

 by falconers — "ignoble." Byron, in his footnote to "the Field of 

 Waterloo," in Childe Harold, is thought to misquote Macbeth, Act 

 II., scene 4, "An eagle towering in his pride of place," instead of a 

 falcon, etc. No one ever " hawked " with eagles. We find " erreg " 

 given as the old Irish, with " errche " as the accusative plural. 



FIELDFARE. — Liath-troisg or truisg, liath-ruisg ; Siocan, 

 socan or uiseag-sneachta (Ir.). 



Big-felt, blue-back, blue-bird, blue-felt, blue-tail; Chooker, 

 clod-hamer (A. S.), cock-felt; Fealefor, feldefare, felder, feldey- 

 bird, felfaa, felfar, felfare, felfaw, felfer, felfit, felfoot, 

 felfur, felfiit, fellfaa, fellfare, fellfaw, fellfor, felt, feltifare, 

 feltiflier, feltiflyer, feltyfare, felverd, fendfare, fendyfare, filde- 

 fare, fildevare, fildefire, filfare, fulfar, fulfer, fulfit ; Grey thrush ; 

 Hill-bird ; Jack-bird ; Meslin-bird, monthly-bird, mountain-bird ; 

 Pigeon-felt; Redshank; Screech-bird, screech-thrush, shred-cock, 

 snow-bird, storm-bird, storm-cock ; Veelvare, veldevare, veldever, 

 veldwer, veltifer, velverd, vildever, vildwer, vildyveer, vilvare, 

 vulver. 



From "feld" or "field" and "faran," to travel; a field- 

 traveller. 



FINCH. — Bricean-caorann (mountain) ; Circean-caorann 

 (mountain) ; Glaisean or glaiseun-daraich (grey or green), 

 glaisean-gobach (haw); Lasair-choille (gold), lu-eun, lus-eun 

 (mountain). 



Aberdavine, adder finch, alf, alp, alpe, awf, elf (bull) ; Berry- 

 breaker (haw), black-headed nob or thistle-finch (bull), blood- 

 olph (bull), bramble-finch or brambling (mountain), bull-finch ; 

 Chaffinch, cherry-finch (haw), chiveller (gold), coble, coble-bird 

 (haw), cocky-hoop ; Draw-bird, draw-water ; Flinch, foolscoat ; 

 Gold, goldfinch, goldie, goldspring, goldspink, goldy, gooldie, 

 goold-spring, goolfrench, gooly, gouldy, gowdie, gowdy, green- 

 serene, greenwood-pecker, grey Kate or Pate (young), grosbeak 

 (haw) ; Hawfinch, hawp, hoop (bull) ; Jack Nicker (Chesh.), Jack 



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